Vesti veikkoni venettä

SKVR VII1 556·Suistamo·1846·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Eur. G, n. 490. -46.

SKVR textEnglish

1Vesti veikkoni venettä,My brothers led the boat,

2Vesti päivän, vesti toisen,Led a day, led another,

3Kohta 3:tta rupesi;Soon then began;

4Sai venehen valmehex,Made the boat ready,

5Pani nuoret soutamah,Made the young ones row,

6Vanhat ilman istumah;The old without sitting;

7Vanhat istu, päät vapisi,The old sat, heads shook,

8Nuoret souti, airot notku;The young rowed, oars bent;

9Souti lesken linnan alle.Rowed beneath the widow's castle;

10Leski liehu linnassansa.The widow fluttered in her castle.

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[Jatko Leinon lesken runoa].

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.

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