Paista, päivä, paimenelle
In the SKVR edition: Kiihtelysvaara. Rytkönen A, n. 390. -95. Röksä.
SKVR textEnglish
1Paista, päivä, paimenelle,Shine, sun, for the shepherd,
2Elä kalan pyytäjälle!Do not shine for the fisher!
3Kalamies syöpi kalloo, leipee,The fisherman eats fish, bread,
4Paimen parka kuivan kuorenThe poor shepherd [has] a dry crust,
5Märän mättään nenässä.A wet clod in his nose.
6Paha on olla paimenessaIt is hard to be a shepherd,
7Tyttölapsen yksinää,A girl-child’s loneliness,
8Mont' on siellä matkalla tulloo,Many things come on the path,
9Tapahtuu taipaleella,Happen on the journey,
10Kun kulukoo metän kuningas,When the forest’s king roams,
11Vaeltaa vallan roisto.The mighty bandit wanders.
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-033921 · Read at SKS ↗
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