Mäni miun marjahan emoni

SKVR V1 17·Vuole·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Vuole]. Europaeus J 76. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mäni miun marjahan emoni,My mother went to the berry place,

2Vanhempaini vaapukkahan,My elders to the lingonberry place,

3Poimi puoloja putinan,Picked half-ripe ones into a basket,

4Vain verran vaapukkoja;Only a measure of lingonberries;

5Tuolt on tautinen tapasi.From there came your sickly custom.

6Läs' tuo vuoen, läs' tuo toisen,Already bring one year, already another,

7Kohta kolmatta rupesi.Soon the third one began.

8Mänin mie noiille kylälle,I went to that village,

9Akan arvan tietäjille,To the old woman’s divining seers,

10Noiat sanoit kuolevansa,The seers said they’d die,

11Tietäjät paranevansa.The wise men said they’d heal.

12Mänin itkien kotihin,I went weeping home,

13Vello vesti ikkunalla.Brother washed at the window.

14Mie kyselin velloltain:I asked my brother:

15"Mitä sie vello siinä vestät,"Why do you wash there, brother,

16Vain vestät sotavenoista,You wash war boats,

17Sotalaivaa lakutat,Scrub the warship,

18Sota kantta kalkuttelet?"Clatter the war deck?"

19"Ei oo niitä maitakaan,"There’s none of that at all,

20Vestän kuolleelle kotia,I wash for the dead home,

21Katoneelle kartanoista,For the lost from manors,

22Emo on kuolleena kotona,Mother lies dead at home,

23Katoneen on kartanossa."The lost one in the manor."

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.

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