Kuule, sulho, kui mä laulan!
In the SKVR edition: Toksova. Reinh. A III 33. 47.
SKVR textEnglish
1Kuule, sulho, kui mä laulan!Hear, groom, how I sing!
2Älä meijän nejostai,Do not [harm] our maiden,
3Alä se pahoi pitele,Do not cling to evils,
4Älä anna anopi lyyvää,Don’t let mother-in-law strike/melt,
5Naon nalkkii kivell',[Or] crush her hunger with a stone,
6Älä kälyn käykkäjel!Don’t let sister-in-law wander!
7Neuvo itse neijestäis,Instruct the maiden yourself,
8Neuvo nelisnurkkasessa,In the four-cornered room,
9Sano sammalhuonehessa,Speak in the moss-room,
10Toisin päänsä väännöksill,With twists of her head,
11Kolmas jalan is'ulla!On the master’s third leg [stool]!
12Kun ei tuota totelle,If she does not obey,
13Ota olki vuotehesta,Take straw from the bed,
14Sulkku siimaksi sipasee,Tie a feather as thread,
15Tuoll' sitt neuvo neijostais,Then instruct the maiden there,
16Ottamaijais opeta!Teach her to accept!
17Kuin ei tuotaan totelle,If she still disobeys,
18Mää sitt kulta kankahalle,I, dear, to the heath,
19Karsi kuivattu kataja,Trim dried juniper,
20Neuvo sitt' tuoll' neijoistais!Instruct the maidens there!
21Kuule, sulho, kui mä laulan!Hear, groom, how I sing!
22Älä meijän neijostain,Do not [harm] our maiden,
23Älä vieruse vetele,Do not drag her to strangers,
24Äijän kolkki ajele,Drive her to the old man’s hut,
25Älä ka'a kannikkoho!Don’t cast her to the threshold!
26Ossoita orroi hyvästi,Guide the paths well,
27Laske laukkii laatusasti!Lower burdens properly!
28Jok' se ruokit ruumenuksen,When you feed the body,
29Siivosit sikkain pahnaa,Clean the chaff from straw,
30Mihi marja maata saapi,Where berries may lie,
31Meijä Lellikki levätä.There let Lellikki rest.
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
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Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-019344 · Read at SKS ↗
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