Menin metsähän lynttyröitsin
In the SKVR edition: Korpiselkä. Mikkonen Ida, c. n. 864. -08.
SKVR textEnglish
1Menin metsähän lynttyröitsin,I went into the forest, stumbling about,
2siellä roatoa känttyröitsin,there I fumbled with carrion/roots,
3voan en jouva laulamaanbut I cannot manage to sing
4kesäisiltä kiireiltä,from summer's pressing tasks,
5talvisilta pakkasilta.from winter's bitter cold.
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 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-032316 · Read at SKS ↗
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