Käin mie piennä paimenessa

SKVR V1 91·Toksova·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Toksova]. Europ. J 239. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Käin mie piennä paimenessaI walked as a small shepherd

2Saksan suuria sikoja,Of Germany's great pigs,

3Tasasia tallikkoja.Of even-trodden herds.

4Sika suureksi sikisi,The pig grew into a great one,

5Posso kasvo kauhiaksi:The piglet became fearsome:

6Selkä oli 7:ää aselta,Its back was [like] ice from the edge,

7Kärsä oli 6:ta kirvesvartta.Its snout [was] like an axe handle.

8Läxi ukko tappamahanThe old man went to kill

9Kultasen kurikan kanssa,With a golden hook,

10Katajaisen kangen kanssa.With a juniper pole.

11Sika nosti kärsäjään,The pig raised its snout,

12Tölläytti saparoaan.Spread its hooves wide.

13Siit ukko uhittelevi:Then the old man jeered:

14"Malta, malta, posso parka,"Wait, wait, poor piglet,

15Et sie tongi toissa vuonna,You didn’t dig last year,

16Tongi toisena kesänä,Dug the next summer,

17Et tongi Torajokea,You didn’t dig Torajoki,

18Torajoen pientareella."On Torajoki’s little bank."

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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