Piennä petti miun emmoin

SKVR V2 412 a·Lempaala·1917·Collector: Räikkönen, Eino

In the SKVR edition: Lemp. Mustila. Räikk. 631. 17. Mari Kuparinen, 80 v.

SKVR textEnglish

1Piennä petti miun emmoin,As a child, my mother(s) abandoned me,

2Sano kuuksi kuolevaan,Declared to the dying one as a month's span,

3Kaheksi kattoovaan,As two spans to enclose [the grave],

4Kuoli kuuksi päiväksi,They died for a month and a day,

5Katosi kaikeksi ijäksi.Vanished for all eternity.

6En ole emmoista nähnyt,I have not seen my mothers since,

7Kerta lie kirstu kiini pantu,Once the coffin was sealed shut,

8Rautanauloilla napattu,Riveted with iron nails,

9Vasaroilla vahvistettu.Fortified with hammers.

10Ko miun kiäntyisi kätteinIf my hands were to turn [the coffin],

11Ja viäntyisi oma väkkeinAnd my kin were to depart,

12Someroita poimimaa,To gather pebbles [for the grave],

13Kililöitä kokkoomaa.To collect tinkling tributes,

14Sopikoot sormet Luojan,May the Creator's fingers align,

15Kääntykööt kätöiset Luojan!May the Creator's hands turn [the grave]!

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.