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Meidän Matti marakatti

SKVR VI1 2657·Lappee·1924·Collector: Kärävä, Aug.

In the SKVR edition: Lappee. Kärävä, A. n. 41. - 1924.

Song type: Matti (Matias, Mattias)

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SKVR textEnglish
1Meidän Matti marakattiOur Matti the mischief-cat
2Meni meidän luhtiin.Went to our fishing shed.
3Minäkö menin katsomaan,Did *I* go to look,
4Niin siellä oli tervasutti.Then there was tar-smoked fare.

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.

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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-025119 · Read at SKS ↗

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