Hiien hilli, hiien halli
In the SKVR edition: Pieksämäki. Hynninen, O. n. 11. --1884. Toikkalanmäki. Juho Ylönen, räätäli.
SKVR textEnglish
Tällä tavalla lumotaan koiroo, ettei se hauku.
1Hiien hilli, hiien halli,Hiisi's ember, Hiisi's frost,
2Hiien harmaa hevonen,Hiisi's gray horse,
3Hiion loukku leuvolleis,Hiisi's trap with gaping jaws,
4Hallan hurst silmilles!May frost's bar strike your eyes!
5Sokkeena synty isääs,Blind was your father's birth,
6Sokkeena synty äitis,Blind was your mother's birth,
7Etkä sinäkään minua näe.And you too shall not see me.
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-028781 · Read at SKS ↗
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