Lähetän langot laulamahan
In the SKVR edition: Lempaala, Kirkonk. Reinh. A III 64. 47.
SKVR textEnglish
1Lähetän langot laulamahan,I send the workers to sing,
2Vellot vettä soutamahan!Kin to row the water!
3Langot laulaat hyvästi,The workers sing well,
4Vellokset hyvin vettäät.The kin draw water skillfully.
5Sen mä tiiän selvälleen,This I know clearly,
6Timmin taidan tarkoilleen:I can state precisely:
7Jyryn päiv' on paikoillaan,Jyry's day is fixed,
8Reppänä on liki lakkii,Reppänä nears the brink,
9Likoo lieska kiukova.Close blazes the fierce flame.
10Laiska laulaa pittääpi,The lazy must sing,
11Laiska o luottu laulamaha,The lazy are meant to sing,
12Veltto vettä soutamaha.The sluggish to row water.
13Kyll' on maata kyntäjäll,There's land for the plowman,
14Vett on veltol soutajall j.n.e.Water for the sluggish rower, etc.
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.
- The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.
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-017854 · Read at SKS ↗
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