Lauloin ennen lapsenpana

SKVR VII2 1680·Suistamo·1847·Collector: Sirelius, Z.

In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Sirelius n. 135. -47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Lauloin ennen lapsenpana,I sang before, as a child,

2Kieltä pieksin pienempänä,I trained my tongue as a little one,

3Vaan en rahatta laula,But I won’t sing without pay,

4Suut en kullaista kuluta;Nor wear out my golden mouth;

5Suu kuluvi kuppelolle,The mouth wears out for a beggar,

6Väki laulajan väsyvi.The singer’s vigor fades.

7Ei suu sulatta laula,The mouth won’t melt to sing,

8Kieli keitin piirasitta,The tongue I boiled without pie,

9Suu maisto sulalle voille,The mouth tasted for the groom’s butter,

10Kieli keitin piirasille.The tongue I boiled for the pies.

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.

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