Luottehikas L emminkäinen
In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi. Eur. G, n. 643. -45. Megrijärvi. Simana Huohvanainen.
SKVR textEnglish
1Luottehikas L emminkäinen,Luotte-endowed Lemminkäinen,
2Tästä läkkä laulamahan,From here he started to sing,
3Ja saamme sanelemahan,And we may recite,
4Sukuvirttä suortamahan,To weave the kin-song,
5Heimokset heläjämähän!The tribes to resound!
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-031391 · Read at SKS ↗
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