Laha laulan, koha jouvvan
In the SKVR edition: Lemp. Nenimäki. Räikk. 567. 17. Akulina Nikolajeva, o.s. Sorvali, 55 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Laha laulan, koha jouvvan,I sing where I begin,
2Laha raksan mistä jaksan.I toil from what strength I have.
3Enhä aina jaksakkaa,I don't always endure,
4Joka aika jouvvakkaa.Every time I barely manage.
5Ko tulen ison ijälle,When I come to the great age,
6Valun varrelle emmoin,I sink to the mother's stem,
7Tulen nurkan nuurujaksi,I become the corner's dweller,
8Penkin piän pitelijäksi.The holder of the bench's end.
9Muut tulloot, muut männööt,Others come, others go,
10Sivutseni tien tekkööt,Let them make a path beside me,
11Vieritsein virtajaat.Streams flow alongside me.
12Mie vua nuurun nurkkaseesI just in the corner's corner,
13Ja pitelen penkin piätä,And hold the bench's end,
14Katan lauan kappaletta.I cover a piece of the table.
15Miul ei uo kurjaal kottii,I have no wretched home,
16Katalaal ei kartanoo,No miserable manor.
17Mie uon puila pyörivillä,I live on spinning trees,
18Varvoilla värisevillä,On trembling branches,
19Oksilla ojenevilla.On bending boughs.
20Mihi puu pyörähtää,Where the tree spins,
21Mie vua pyörähän keralla,I just spin along with it.
22Mihi vuaru vuarahtaa,Where the slope rumbles,
23Mie vua vuarahan jälestä.I follow the slope's track.
24Koivun oksaal on kottiin,On the birch's branch is home,
25Marjavarsiil on maijjain,On berry stems is my dwelling.
26Kanervikko kartanoin,The heath is my manor.
27Tuuli usta turjuttaa,The wind swells my mouth,
28Lempo lietee puhhuu.Lempo blows the flame.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-018227 · Read at SKS ↗
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