Nin häiti minun iseini
In the SKVR edition: Juva. Gottlund n. 61. -14/12 1815. Sohvi Hotakka.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nin häiti minun iseiniThus drove away my father
2Kuin kala kivisen ran̄alle.Like a fish onto a stony shore.
3Nin häitin minun ämeni,Thus drove away my mother,
4Kuin orava kuivan kusen.Like a squirrel up a dry spruce.
5Älä häite, herra Jesus,Do not drive away, Lord Jesus,
6Hylkiä, hyve Jumala!Do not reject, good God!
7Koti kolkoxi tulopi,Home turns desolate,
8Piha askelta pitempi,The yard longer than a stride,
9Kyn̄ys hirtä korkiampi.*The threshold beam higher.*
10Illat itki ikkunalla,Evenings wept at the window,
11Amut aitan kyn̄yxellä,[Unknown creatures] at the granary's threshold,
12Viko kauen kartanolla,Faults long on the manor,
13Kukauden kujasten susa.A wolf in the flowered paths.
14Änämp on minulta huolta,More worries burden me,
15Kuin on kusessa käpyä,Than there are cones in a spruce,
16Pätähässä silpoisia.Or splinters in a wood chip.
17Ei jaxa hevo vettäiki,The horse can't share water,
18Lina harja likutella;Nor comb the flax's bristles;
19Hiekoia pahala tiele,Sandy the wretched road,
20Santoia pahala mala.Sandy the wretched place.
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-023079 · Read at SKS ↗
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