Istuin kirkon penkin päässä
In the SKVR edition: Toksova, Purnu. Saxb. 744. 59.
SKVR textEnglish
1Istuin kirkon penkin päässä,I sat at the church bench's end,
2Tuossa istun, tuossa itkin,There I sit, there I weep,
3Kuuntelin emmoin ääntä,I listened to my mother's voice,
4Valitusta vanhempaini,The lament of my parents,
5En kuullut emmoin ääntä.I did not hear my mother's voice.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-018172 · Read at SKS ↗
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