Mehiläinen, ilman lintu

SKVR VII4 loitsut 1792·Suojärvi·1895·Collector: Erkko, J. H.

In the SKVR edition: [Suojärvi?]. Erkko n. 28. -95.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mehiläinen, ilman lintuBee, bird of the air,

2Lenti päivän, lenti toisen,Flew a day, flew another,

3Lenti kolmatta kohti.*Flew toward the third.*

4Yheksän meren taakse,Beyond nine seas,

5Meren puolen kymmenettä,To the side of the tenth sea,

6Toip' on sieltä voitehia[He] brought from there ointments

7Pikkusilla pottisilla,With tiny little jars,

8Sorminahkan suuruisilla.Of finger-skin’s measure.

9Voian alta, voian päältä,From under the salve, from atop the salve,

10Keskeltä kivuttumiksi,From the middle, as pain-inducing,

11Päältä tuntumattomiksi,From above, as unfelt,

12Alta aivan terveheksi.From below, wholly healthy.

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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