Kun mie laululle läheme
In the SKVR edition: Liperi? Lönnrot, Jälk. j. p. n. 19. -39?
SKVR textEnglish
1Kun mie laululle läheme,When I go to the song,
2Virren työlle työnteleme,Urge the hymn to its labor,
3Laulan meret mesiksi,I sing the seas to honey,
4Meren hiekat hernehiksi;The sea's sands to peas;
5Suoloiksi meren someret,The sea's gravel to islands,
6Heinäpielekset pihoiksi,Hay-meadows to courtyards,
7Tammen oksat tanteriksi.Oak branches to clearings.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-032168 · Read at SKS ↗
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