Nukuta, Jumala, lasta

SKVR VII2 3593·Korpiselkä·1908·Collector: Mikkonen, Ida

In the SKVR edition: Korpiselkä. Mikkonen Ida, n. 272. -08.

SKVR textEnglish

[Nukuta, Jumala, lasta - Uni ulkoa kysyypi.]

Tuutulaulu.

1Nukuta, Jumala, lasta,Put to sleep, God, the child,

2makavuta maitosuuta,Lay down the milk-mouth,

3sais ei likka liian moata,Let not the girl overly grieve,

4lapsen orja olla jouten.The child’s servant be idle.

5Uni ulkoa kysyypi:Sleep asks from outside:

6onko lasta kätkyessä,Is the child in the cradle,

7pieni peittojen sisässä?The little one under covers?

8Tule, uni, uksen toa,Come, sleep, from behind the door,

9käy, unoni, kätkyeen,Approach, my sleep, to the cradle,

10lapsen pienen pieluksihin,To the little child’s sides,

11vakahasen voattijahen;Into the calm garment;

12tule ńukku noapurista,Come, slumber, from the neighbor’s,

13tolkku toisesta pihasta!Steadily from the other yard!

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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