Käin mie piittä pitkät matkat

SKVR V1 103·Vuole·1859·Collector: Saxbäck, Fr. A.

In the SKVR edition: Vuole, Putkela. Saxbäck 90. 59.

SKVR textEnglish

1Käin mie piittä pitkät matkat,I wandered heedlessly on long journeys,

2Tuluksitta korvet tummat,Through dark forests without reaching [a destination],

3Kirvettä kiviset matkat.Stony paths [cleared] with the axe.

4Puuttu tuo tasainen tammi.There lacked that straight oak tree.

5Kuka tammen taitteloopi,Who will chop down the oak,

6Puun pitkän piroitteloopi?Who will shape the long tree?

7On miulla mokoma veikko,I have such a brother,

8Kuka tammen taitteloopi,Who will chop down the oak,

9Puun pitkän piroitteloopi.Who will shape the long tree.

10Tyven teköö tynnyriks,The trunk they'll make into a barrel,

11Keskipaikan kelleriksi,The middle into a keel,

12Latvan laivan mastiloiksi.The crown into ship's masts.

13Mistä kulko kuningas,From where did the king come,

14Vaeltaa linnan vanhin.The castle's elder wandered?

15Kuningas kovin kysyypi,The king sternly asks,

16Linnan vanhin vaikeasti:The castle's elder reluctantly:

17"Mingän tähden on teä siottu,"For what reason have you been bound,

18Vaimon poik on vangiteltu?"A woman's son imprisoned?"

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.

The text is that of the SKVR digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), with these changes:

The edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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