Tule, ukko, uunin päältä

SKVR VI1 1381·Lappee·1889·Collector: Kemppi, A.

In the SKVR edition: Lappee. Kemppi, A. n. 25. - 1889. Hanhikemppi. Agneta Iitiä, 64 vja Eeva Kemppi, 45 v.

SKVR textEnglish

1Tule, ukko, uunin päältä,Come, old man, from the stove's top,

2Sio lapsen silmät kiini,Bind the child's eyes shut,

3Saisin lapsen nukkumaa,May I get the child to sleep,

4Saisin isse maataksei,May I myself not have to lie down,

5Uunin päällä ollaksei,Not to be on the stove's top,

6Uunin piimät syyäksei,Not to eat the stove's buttermilks,

7Nuoret mai'ot juu'aksei,The young milkings not to drink,

8Pehmoisella pään alasella,With a soft head cushion,

9Karvaisella kaattuvalla,With a hairy covering,

10Villaisella vuotehella,On a woolen bed,

11Valkoisella vaippasella!With a white coverlet!

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.

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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