kajavann on kaivotiellä

SKVR V3 552 a·Sakkola·1891·Collector: Neovius, A. D.

In the SKVR edition: Sakkola (Metsäpirtti) Neovius. 284. ? Settäin miniä Maurulan Oute.

SKVR textEnglish

Tytön laulu.

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2kajavann on kaivotiellä,main text line 2The tern is on the well-path,

3tiiett ei tytön nimmiini:main text line 3They don't know the girl's name for me:

4iso kutsu kukkaseksi,main text line 4The elder calls me "flower",

5emo päivän nousunakse,main text line 5Mother for the sunrise,

6velloin on vieen kalaks,main text line 6Brothers took me as a fish,

7sissoin on sinikeräkse;main text line 7Sisters as a blue bundle;

8kuin mään toisee mie talloon,main text line 8When I go to another farmstead,

9muuttu mustakse siaksi,main text line 11I turn into a black pike,

10käännyn kärsänkantajaksi,main text line 12Become a snout-bearing one,

11en maksa sitä vieeoista,main text line 13I won't pay for what was taken,

12minkä joi janohuuvaani,main text line 14What my grain-thief drank,

13maksa ei niitä jauholoin,main text line 15Nor pay for the flours,

14minkä syönen leipänäni;main text line 16What I ate as my bread;

15minkä talloon tanhuvalla.main text line 18What [was spent] on the farm's threshing floor.

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.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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