Eletäm̄e pojat hyväst
In the SKVR edition: Toksova. Reinh. A V 58 b. 47.
SKVR textEnglish
1Eletäm̄e pojat hyväst,"Let us live, lads, well / Farewell, lads, let us live!"
2Vähän aika välttävästä!"A brief time we'll barely endure!"
3Syksyll' sota tulloo,"In autumn, war will come,"
4Viiän meit pojat sottaa,"They'll take us lads to war,"
5Lätsätän lääpö maahan,"They'll flop our caps to the earth,"
6Ajellaan hienot hiukset."Our fine hair will be shorn."
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-017364 · Read at SKS ↗
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