Onkos poikia omia

SKVR V1 285·Toksova·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Toksova]. Europæus J 174. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Onkos poikia omia,Are there sons of my own,

2Opissain miun ollehia,Those who have been in my learning,

3Koulussain miun käynehiä?Those who have attended my school?

4Mie en oo opissa ollut,I have not been in learning,

5Seis't ei seppiin pajassa,Nor stood in smiths' smithy,

6Sepän liett' en liekuttanut,I did not fan the smith's stove,

7Painant en sepän pal'etta.Nor pressed the smith's bellows.

8Läksin kouluhun kotonta,I left home for school,

9Oppiin mie omilta mailta.Learned from my own lands.

10Kov ol koulu käyäksein,Hard was the school to attend,

11Opp ol outo ollaksein,Learning felt strange to endure,

12Kirja ol kiintiä lukea.The book was hard to read.

13Lukkari kovin lu'etti,The sexton made [me] read harshly,

14Pitivät papit pahasti,The priests treated [me] badly,

15Kirkkoherrat kiintiästi.The vicars [acted] strictly.

16Itse katsoin kirjan päälle,I myself looked at the book,

17Silmät papin pii'an päälle,Eyes on the priest's pen,

18Silmät kiiluit Kirstin päälle,Eyes stared at Kirsti,

19Kiiluneet ei kirjan päälle.[They] had not stared at the book.

20Läksin koulusta kotihin,I left school for home,

21Opista omille maille.From learning to my own lands.

22Kansa kaatu katsomahanThe people gathered to look,

23Ja kylä kyselemähän:And the village to ask:

24Miltä maalt on mies sukusin,From which land is the man of my kin,

25Kulta maalta heimokunsin?From which golden land my tribe?

26Maalta siltä mies sukusin,From that land the man of my kin,

27Maalta tuolta heimokunsin,From yonder land my tribe,

28Maalla mill on puut punaset,In the land where trees are red,

29Puut punaset, maat siniset,Red trees, blue lands,

30Keltaiset petäjän kerkät.Yellow are the pine's crowns.

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.
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.

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