Laitan mie piat ässimän
In the SKVR edition: Juva. Gottlund n. 59. - 9/12 1815. [Tuomas] Nopoinen.
SKVR textEnglish
Fragment.
1Laitan mie piat ässimän.I set the heads/spirits (or: I prepare the ends for the spirit).
2Pika itki illotäli,Pika wept in the evening time,
3Kaiken amua kallotteli.She scolded the whole mother,
4Läximä itä ähtimänI went east to Ähtimä (or: eastward struggling),
5Kolmen koirani keralla.With my three dogs.
6Koirat sotki suota myöte,The dogs churned the swamp along,
7Ise tepon tiete myöte.I myself along the deed's path.
8Löusin kuren kusen jurelta.I found the crane under the spruce,
9Kan̄on saunan karsina,I brought the sauna's pen,
10Kan̄on kauroia ätän.I brought oats to eat.
11Päsä, pika, kattiluta,Hurry, Pika, to the pot,
12Jolla kurki käitätä,With which to handle the crane,
13Paha lintu paisteta.The bad bird to roast.
14Kurki heiti kielilänsä:The crane threw its tongue:
15Hyväpä minekin olen"Good indeed am I too,
16Akan ainuan apuna,As the old woman's sole helper,
17Kan̄an vättä kaulallai,The hen's rag around [my] neck,
18Nuokalla notkutteli,Swayed with a pole,
19Sivilla lattia lakaisi,Swept the floor with a broom,
20Purstoila pöuen pyhin.Sanctified the table with twigs.
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.
- 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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-022680 · Read at SKS ↗
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