Läxin soitellen sotah

SKVR VII1 917·Korpiselkä·1846·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Korpiselkä. Eur. G, n. 291. -46.

SKVR textEnglish

1Läxin soitellen sotah,I went playing to war,

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3Saatih sana jälestä:A word came afterward:

4"Sulhosi kotona kuoli.""Your bridegroom died at home."

5"Kuin lie kuollut, kuolkahansa,"However he died, let him die,

6Multa mustan viekähänsäLet the black earth take him!

7Orihilla ostetull,Bought with stallions,

8Varsalla vajehetulla!Paid for with foals!

9Saan minä mukoman sulhonI’ll get another bridegroom

10Ruotsin ruskeista sovista,From Sweden’s brown clay pots,

11Venäin verkavaattehista;From Russia’s woven clothes;

12Pään panen patapaloista,I’ll shape his head from pot-shards,

13Käet värttinänrämyistä,Hands from spindle parts,

14Vatsan vaivaisen säkistä,Belly from a beggar’s sack,

15Jalat koivun konkeloista,Legs from birch knots,

16Silmät liinan siemenistä."Eyes from flax seeds."

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.

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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