Käin mie tietä ingentingen
In the SKVR edition: Vuole. Saxbäck 430 a. 59.
SKVR textEnglish
1Käin mie tietä ingentingen,I walked the road wanderingly,
2Astun maata arkunmarkun.I trod the ground stumblingly,
3Tul miull honka vastahani.A pine came before me,
4Aloin hongalt kysellä:I began to ask the pine:
5"Syntyiskö vene siusta,"Might a boat spring from you,
6Laiva lastun vestamättä?"A ship without hewing shavings?"
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.
- The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.
Source
Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-017572 · Read at SKS ↗
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