Polttipa poj'alta polvet
In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Eur. G, n. 462. -46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Polttipa poj'alta polvet,The knees burned from the boy,
2Rikko rinnat neitoselta.Broke the breasts from the maiden.
3Tuosta tuttih tuleks,From that, they began to know,
4Arvattih valkiax.They divined the white lights.
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6Onko ilmalla imeistä,Are there suckling spirits in the air,
7Jumaloita taivosessaGods in the heavens,
8Nämät tuskat tuntemah?To feel these pains?
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-036019 · Read at SKS ↗
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