Kunne kipuja kiistän
In the SKVR edition: Pieksämäki. Tepponen, H. n. 95. --1886. Vanaja.
SKVR textEnglish
1Kunne kipuja kiistän,Whither do I carry the pains,
2Kunne tungen tummioita?Whither do I thrust the shadowed things!?
3Kiipeä kipuvuoren kukkulalle.Climb to the summit of Pain-Mountain.
4Kivi on keskellä mäkeä,A stone lies at the hill's center,
5Tuossa on reikeä yheksän;There are nine holes;
6Jok' on reikä keskimäinen,Each hole is the middle one,
7Yheksän sylen syvyinen,Nine fathoms deep,
8Sinne kipuja kiistän.There I carry the pains.
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.
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-026535 · Read at SKS ↗
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