Emojain miun on ikävä

SKVR V2 1236·Lempaala·1917·Collector: Räikkönen, Eino

In the SKVR edition: Lemp. Lempaalan kylä. Räikk. 387. 17. Okulina Valkonen; (inkeroinen).

SKVR textEnglish

1Emojain miun on ikävä,I long for my mother(s),

2Kaiho suur kantajaa.A great sorrow for the one who bore me.

3Emojain ko hiä imetti,When she, of mothers, nursed me,

4Kantajaa ko hiä kanto.When she, the bearer, carried me.

5Mie enne unet unehan,I once lulled myself to sleep,

6Tahi laulut lakkaelen,Or halted songs mid-verse,

7Ko mie emon unehan.When I lulled my mother to sleep.

8Mil mie maksan muamon vaivan,How can I repay my mother's toil,

9Maksan vaivat vanhemmain,Repay the pains of my elders,

10Maksan marjoil kesäl?With summer berries as payment?

11Mut ei marjat mittää maksaBut berries cannot repay anything

12Muamon vaivasen ehol.For the worth of my mother's labor.

13Emo on näht vaivan suuren,Mother has endured great toil,

14Kärsiint kivun kipijän,Borne the scorching pain,

15Vaivan näht, varrain noust.Toil witnessed, scars risen.

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.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.