Näkki maalle, minä järveen!
In the SKVR edition: Kiuruvesi. Krohn n. 14720. - 1885. Heinäkylä. Ventti Tikkanen, 59 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Uimaan.
Rauta järveen ja kivi otettiin ja sitte kun tultiin, niin viskattiin takasin:
1Näkki maalle, minä järveen!"Näkki to the land, I to the lake!"
2Näkki rauan raskaseksi,"May the Näkki become heavy as iron,"
3Min lehen kevyseksi!"May I [become] light as a leaf!"
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-024712 · Read at SKS ↗
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