Mäne tuonne kunne käsken
In the SKVR edition: Savo. Ganander-v. Becker, Mythologia Fennica, lisiä, s. 29, n. 18. -1819.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mäne tuonne kunne käsken:Go there where I command:
2Pohjan pitkään perään,To the far end of the North,
3Lapin loajaan saloon! -Into Lapland's hidden wilderness!
4Siell' on sukuus, siell' on mantuus,There lies your kin, there your birthright,
5Siellä muutkin murhamiehet,There too are other blooded men,
6Vuoressa pahon tekiät. -On the mountain, wicked makers dwell.
7Miehen syöpähän kylään!To the village that devours men!
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.
- 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-025450 · Read at SKS ↗
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