Täss on tykki tyttölöitä
In the SKVR edition: Keltto. Europ. Fol. III 2. 348. 48.
SKVR textEnglish
1Täss on tykki tyttölöitä,Here's a cluster of young maidens,
2Virvikko Viron kanoja,Virvikko of Estonia's hens,
3Sarka saaren neitoloita!Sarka of the island's maidens!
4Neito teiltä, neito meiltä,A maiden from you, a maiden from us,
5Neito kaikelta kylältä!A maiden from every village!
6Tehkää myö kivinen linna,Let us build a stone fortress,
7Kivilinna paasipohjaA stone fortress on slate foundation,
8Selvälle meren selälle,To the calm open sea's expanse,
9Lakealle lainehelle,To the tranquil wave's edge,
10Kunne ei pääse Suomen sulhot,Where Finnish suitors cannot reach,
11Ei viere Venäen kosjat.Nor Russian grooms draw near.
12Mitä turnuksen tulosta,What of the gathering's outcome,
13Si'an kärsän käynnöksestä,The pig-snout's trudging about?
14Kuin ei viere verkaviittaSince no net-cloak approaches,
15Eikä saane saapasjalka,No boot-footed one arrives,
16Liitsilääppä, kutroitukka,Slippery-pawed, braid-haired,
17Kutroitukka ja kähärä?Braid-haired and curly-locked?
18Kyll meit naivat Narvan saksat,Yet Narva's Germans will wed us,
19Linnan saksat lippajavat,The fortress-lords hasten,
20Ottavat omat molotsat,Take up their hammers,
21Silkissä vihille vievät,Lead us silk-clad to the feast,
22Säterissä sängyn päälle,To the manor's bed,
23Hopeassa huonehesen,Into silver-lined chambers,
24Kullassa kujan perälle.To the golden lane's end.
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-018689 · Read at SKS ↗
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