Toisin siellä, toisin teäällä

SKVR V3 782·Lempaala·1891·Collector: Neovius, A. D.

In the SKVR edition: Lempaala - Sakkola (Metsäpirtti) Neovius. 291. 91. Larin Paraske.

SKVR textEnglish

1Toisin siellä, toisin teäällä,Differently there, differently yonder,

2toisin toisessa talossa,differently in another house,

3toisin sannoot sarenat,differently speak the horns,

4toisin ukset ulvassuoot,differently the doors howl,

5kiskorauvat kiljasoot.the hinges screech differently.

6Kui määt toisee talloo,As if decay tramples another,

7et ossaa ovissa käyväyou don't know to move through doors

8talon tyttären tavalta,in the house-daughter's manner,

9talon miehen mieltä myöten,the house-man's mind aligned,

10sulhasen syväntä myöten;the groom's heart followed;

11sie et tunne tulta tehhä,you don't know to make fire,

12tiie et liettä liikutella.nor stir the hearth's flames.

13Osajais se miu emmoin,Had my mistress known,

14osais oluet tehhä.she'd brew ale properly.

15Luulit vietä sie kyläänee,You thought to parade to the village,

16opittaa on oljamiini;learned in barley ways;

17ei kylleää vietykääne,not to the village taken,

18ei opittu oljamii;no barley lore learned;

19siel on ouvot oljan reisut,there lie empty barley husks,

20köyhäset kylän pitoset.the poor ones' village fare.

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.
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.

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