Mitä virtehen tulevi

SKVR VII2 1513·Korpiselkä·1846·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Korpiselkä. Eur. G, n. 313. -46.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mitä virtehen tulevi,What comes into the stream/song,

2Luottehesen lankeavi,Falls into the northwest,

3Sitä virttä lauletah,That song is sung,

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5Kun ei tuotane olutta,When no beer has been brought,

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7Kerin virteni kerälle,I hurried my song to the gathering,

8Syyättelen sykkyrälle,I reproach Sykkyrä/the corner,

9Sykyrän pihalle syyän,Sykyrä! I drive to the yard,

10Kerän keski ikkunoistaFrom the midst of the windows

11Kulkemaan kujoa myöten,To walk along the alley,

12Maantietä matkoamah,To journey the highway,

13Etsimäh pitoa parempiaTo seek better feasts,

14Tahi häitä runsahempia,Or more lavish weddings,

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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.

Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.