Minä laulan lapselleni
In the SKVR edition: Joroinen. Kinnunen, A. n. 118. -1884. Eeva Liisa Roponen, 26 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Minä laulan lapselleni,I sing to my child,
2Liilettelen linnulleni.I flutter [care] for my bird.
3Tieppä, lintu, liinapaita,Take, bird, a linen shirt,
4Havukka, hyvä hame![Adorned] skirt, good garment!
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-023570 · Read at SKS ↗
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