Seiso verj niinkun seinä
In the SKVR edition: Suonenjoki. Ekberg, K. n. 3. --1888. Kirkonkylä. Mikko Pelkonen, 75 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Kerran kuulin kuoharj Näyhän loehtevan salavaessaa:
1Seiso verj niinkun seinä,Stand, blood, like a wall,
2Asu verj niinkun aita,Dwell, blood, like a fence,
3Niinkun miekka meressä seisoi,Like a sword stood in the sea,
4Meri mustassa kivessä,The sea in the black stone,
5Puasi pellon pientareella!The tree on the field’s edge!
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.
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-027758 · Read at SKS ↗
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