Mistäs tiesit, tervulainen
In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi. Eur. G, n.114. -46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mistäs tiesit, tervulainen,From where did you know, tar-country dweller,
2Ojan rotta, tien osasit,Ditch-rat, how did you come to know,
3Tämän neien tääll olevan,That this maiden dwells here,
4Kasvavan tämän kanasen,This fledgling hen growing here,
5Vesan nuoren nousevax,The young shoot rising up,
6Impyen yleneväx?The maiden ascending?
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-033472 · Read at SKS ↗
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