Jo nyt on kulta kiehununna, paistununna
In the SKVR edition: Sonkajärvi. Krohn n. 14340. --1885. Oinasjärvi, Mustamäki. Olli Huttunen, synt. 1826.
SKVR textEnglish
Kun nostaa pois tulen:
1Jo nyt on kulta kiehununna, paistununna.Now the beloved is readied, perfected.
(Sitte kantaa koasta. Eellä laulajat ja kantajat jälestä.)
2Lähe, kulta, kulkemaha,Go, beloved, to journey,
3Hopea, vajeltamahaSilver, to wander forth,
4Tätä kultaista kujoa,Along this golden path,
5Hopejaista tietä myöte.The silvery road ahead.
6Joko on piiat pirtin pessyt,Have the maids cleaned the cottage,
7Naiset lattian lakassu,Women swept the floor,
8Onko lupa tupaha tulla?Is there leave to enter the house?
9Astun jalan, astun toisen,I step one foot, then another,
10Astun kohta kolmannenni,Soon take the third step,
11Pinnatun petäjän alle.Beneath the smoothed pine.
(Sitte viiään pöyälle.)
(Kun puuhun viiään.)
12En minä pistä pihlajaan,I won't place in the rowan,
13Enkä raitaan rakenna,Nor build in the alder,
14Vaan honkaan hyvään puuhu paan.But in the good pine I settle.
15Kukku sulle, kukku mulle,Cuckoo to you, cuckoo to me,
16Kukku kaikelle kylälle,Cuckoo to the whole village,
17Kukku heia, heia!Cuckoo, heia, heia!
18Ottipa verkot veljestänsä,He took the nets from his brothers,
19Laina-ranat ranniltansa,Borrowed nets from his shore,
20Jolla minä ketun kengitin,With which I shod the fox,
21Jolla loihtotin rovastin.With which I charmed the priest.
22Tuolla poikani polonen,There my poor son,
23Tuolla on ollut suon suuren sivulla.There by the great marsh's edge,
24Repo juosta renkutteliThe fox ran clattering,
25Suuren suon sivulla,By the great marsh's edge,
26Ei ollut tulta, ei tulusta,No fire, no means to light,
27Vara saaha valkijata -- --No way to catch whitefish.
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-027389 · Read at SKS ↗
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