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Isämeitä istu' puussa

SKVR VI1 2713·Joroinen·1885·Collector: Kinnunen, A.

In the SKVR edition: Joroinen. Kinnunen, A. n. c 1196. -1885. Savuniemi.

Song type: Kirkollisten tekstien väännelmiä

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SKVR textEnglish
a.
1Isämeitä istu' puussa,Fathers/ancestors sit in the tree,
2Lampaan lapa suussa.A sheep's shoulder-blade in [their] mouth.
l.
b.
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4Pappilan verään suussa.The parish's gate in [their] mouth.

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-025175 · Read at SKS ↗

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