Terve kuu, terve kuningas
In the SKVR edition: Kiihtelysvaara. Lönnrot Q, n. 151. -38.
SKVR textEnglish
1Terve kuu, terve kuningas,Hail moon, hail king,
2Vereväinen reen perässä,*The blood-red one behind the sleigh,*
3Rehetyinen reen perässä!The grain-rich one behind the sleigh!
4Nouse korjota, koria,Rise to gather, splendid one,
5Reetyinen, reen perästä!Reetyinen, from behind the sleigh!
6Eip oo kuultu eikä nähtyNever heard nor seen
7Tämän joukon joukeutta.The might of this host.
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-033638 · Read at SKS ↗
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