Yöllä liina kylvettiin

SKVR VII3 loitsut 724·Ilomantsi·1893·Collector: Jyväskylän lyseon konventti

In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi. Jyväsk. lys. konv. n. 142. -93. Hartiavaara. Juhan Määttänen, 64 v. Kuullut isältään.

SKVR textEnglish

Tulen synty sanoja.

1Yöllä liina kylvettiin,At night, the net was sown,

2Yöllä liina kynnettiin,At night, the net was plowed,

3Yöllä liina koirittiin,At night, the net was staked,

4Yöllä veittiin vetteen,At night, [the net] was taken to the water,

5Yöllä veistä nostettiin,At night, the knife/pole was raised,

6Yöllä lusto lustottiin,At night, the frame was arranged,

7Yöllä rihma keträttiin,At night, the thread was spun,

8Yöllä verkko kuvottiin,At night, the net was shaped,

9Yöllä veittiin vesille.At night, [it] was taken to the waters.

10Yöllä veittiin nuottoo;At night, the seine net was taken;

11Veittiin myötä virtaan,[It] was taken with the current,

12Suatiin silee siika;A sleek whitefish was caught;

13Puhkastiin silee siika.The sleek whitefish was gutted.

14Veittiin vasta virtaan,[It] was taken against the current,

15Suatiin halee hauki;A slender pike was caught;

16Halastiin halee hauki,The slender pike was clasped,

17Suatiin puna keränen;A red bundle was caught;

18Purettiin puna keränen,The red bundle was opened,

19Suatiin tul soronen.A fire-colored perch was caught.

("Sitten en muista muuta kun, että se piäs pakkoon").

20Siihen pohjonen porotti,Then the Northern One thundered,

21Tästä kiipesi kipuna,From this, a spark climbed,

22Poltti soita, poltti maita,It burned marshes, burned lands,

23Poltti aukeita ahoja.Burned open heaths.

("En muista enempää").

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.
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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