Osajel se miun emmoin

SKVR V2 402·Lempaala·1917·Collector: Räikkönen, Eino

In the SKVR edition: Lemp. Lempaalan kylä. Räikk. 349. 17. Okuli Valkonen, (inkeroinen).

SKVR textEnglish

1Osajel se miun emmoin,Knew how, my mother,

2Osajel omenan tehhäKnew how to grow an apple tree,

3Sekä taimen kasvatella.And to tend the sapling.

4Mut osant ei ossaa luuva:But skill could not be found:

5Soi paikoil pahoil,It sang in wicked places,

6Ilkijöil istuumiil.At mockers' gathering spots.

7Ko elin ison koton,When I lived in the grand house,

8Käin kukkaan kujas,I walked flowered lanes,

9Kajavaan kaivotiel,On the tern's well-path,

10Käin ko pässi päätä puijen,Walked like a ram butting heads,

11Lammas sorkkaa sokaten.A sheep stumbling on hooves.

12Ko elin ison koton,When I lived in the grand house,

13Iso kutsu kuuvaloks,The great one called to moonlight,

14Velloin vetekalaks.Pleaded to become a water-fish.

15Tulin toisee talloo,I came to another household,

16Muutuin mustaaks sijaks,Turned into a blackened state,

17Kiännyin kärsän kantajaaks.Became a snout-bearing creature.

18Jouvuin koiriin kottii,I landed with dogs at home,

19Variksiin vainijool.A watchman for foes.

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.