Mutsoi metsällä itki
In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Eur. G, n. 416. -46.
SKVR textEnglish
Aholla itkiä.
1Mutsoi metsällä itki,Mutsoi wept in the forest,
2Heinätiellä hellitteli,On the hay path he lingered,
3Kaivotiellä kaierteli,On the well path he circled,
4Vesitiellä vieretteli.On the water path he rolled.
5"Baatkoisko pahoin pitävi?""Does Baatko treat [me] badly?"
6"Ei baatkoi pahoin pitele,"Baatko does not treat [me] badly,
7Baatkoi on kuin omani taatto."Baatko is like my own father."
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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-031824 · Read at SKS ↗
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