Lāti Siimanen häitä Pohjolassa
In the SKVR edition: Suojärvi. Eur. G, n. 614. -46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Lāti Siimanen häitä Pohjolassa,Lassi Siimanen [was] at the wedding in Pohjola,
2Tiina ravia tietoloilla,Tiina trotted along the roadways,
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4Työnti miehet kaikkiHe pushed all the men
5Honkih hohottamah,To make the pines glow,
6Petäjih piexämäh.To thrash the firs.
7Nousi maimanen maasta,A ground-creature rose from the earth,
8Teräleuka liettehestä.Sharp-Jaw from the mire.
9Maamo maasta kirguu:Earth Mother shouts from the ground:
10"Syö se maima elävältä!""Eat that creature alive!"
11Kirguu Lemminkäinen:Lemminkäinen shouts:
12"Elä syö maamo keittämättä!""Don’t eat it raw, Earth Mother!"
13Keitti vettä kiirehesti,He boiled water hastily,
14Käpsähytti kielelleh,Splashed it onto his tongue,
15Hupsahutti huulilleh,Spattered it on his lips,
16Kiirehti syöä.Hurried to eat.
17Matkai soita, matkai maita,Traverse swamps, traverse lands,
18Maita maxan karvaisia,Lands of the hairy badger,
19Soita Suomen alaisia.Swamps beneath Finland's rule.
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21"Tammas, Pohjolan emäntä,"Tammas, Pohjola's mistress,
22Tules tänne, tarvitah,Come here, you are needed,
23Pesemäh, pelastamah!,To wash, to rescue!
24Yx on neito Pohjosessa".There’s one maiden in the North."
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-030898 · Read at SKS ↗
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