Soitti vanha Väinämöinen
In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi? Lönnrot S, n. 252. -28.
SKVR textEnglish
[Väinämöisen soitto.]
1Soitti vanha Väinämöinen,Old Väinämöinen played,
2notkot nousi, mäet aleni,Hollows rose, hills sank,
3vuoret vaskiset vapisi.Bronze mountains trembled.
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’ 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-031136 · Read at SKS ↗
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