Piennä petti miun emmoin
In the SKVR edition: Toksova, Purnu. Saxbäck 856. 59.
SKVR textEnglish
1Piennä petti miun emmoin,As a child, my mothers deceived me,
2Piennä petti piikuensa,As a child, deceived with their maids,
3Heitti -,Abandoned,
4Jätti kun jänö kolmeöiseks,Left like a hare for three nights,
5Kolme öisnä kuolemaan,To die across three nights,
6Kattoomaan kaheksi öissä.To see it split into two in the nights.
7Emo synnytti miuista,Mother birthed from me,
8Mie vaan syntä synnyttelin,I alone birthed myself to life,
9Kasvo miulle hieno hiuksi.Fine hair grew upon me.
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 editors’ signs inside the verses ([ ], ⌈ ⌉, *, [!], [?]) are left out, as in the poem reader; the letters they enclose are kept.
- 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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-017810 · Read at SKS ↗
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