Kateja on kaikin paikoin
In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi? Lönnr. S, n. 149. -28. [Lönnrotin tekemästä aakkosellisesta mytologisten nimien luettelosta.]
SKVR textEnglish
1Kateja on kaikin paikoin,Envious ones are everywhere,
2velhoja joka veräjä,a sorcerer at every gate,
3noitia joka norossa,a witch in every corner,
4perkeleitä pensakoissa - -devils in the bushes.
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-035491 · Read at SKS ↗
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