Mie uon kaik katala näht
In the SKVR edition: Lemp. Lempaalan kylä. Räikk. 373. 17. Okuli Valkonen, (inkeroinen).
SKVR textEnglish
1Mie uon kaik katala näht,I am seen as wholly wretched,
2Kaik uon koitune kokent.I have endured all trials experienced.
3Ei ne kasva kaik lapset,Not all children grow,
4Niiko kasvoin mie katala,As I grew up wretched,
5Korkenin kova-osane.The most exalted, hard-fated one.
6Tunnen tuulet, tunnen tyynet,I know the winds, I know the calms,
7Tunnen pohjosen pimijän,I know the North's darkener,
8Armot lapsen armottoman.The mercies of a merciless child.
9Mie kasvoin isotta ilman,I grew up without a father,
10Kasvoin varsin vanhemmatta.Grew truly without parents.
11Jo piin pijetyn paijan,Already endured a worn-out tunic,
12Kannoin kannetun hammeen.I carried a threadbare skirt.
13Isotonta kaikki lyövät,The fatherless, all beat them,
14Emotonta itkettäät.The motherless, they make them weep.
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-018249 · Read at SKS ↗
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