Mies musta merestä nousi

SKVR VII4 loitsut 1916·Kitee·1828·Collector: Lönnrot, Elias

In the SKVR edition: Kitee. Lönnrot S, n. 183. -28. [Musta mies merestä - Mato parralle - Kipujen manauksia.]

Song types: Hammastaudin synty, Hammastauti

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SKVR textEnglish

Ham̄asmaon s[anat].

1Mies musta merestä nousi,A dark man rose from the sea,

2uros aallosta ylenia hero ascended from the wave.

3pystyn peukalon kokonen,Upright, the size of a thumb,

4uroon sormen korkunainen;as tall as a man's finger.

5tuosta tuo paha paheni,From there, the evil grew stronger,

6hapenelle parta kasvo,a beard grew on the brink,

7parralle mato sikesi.a worm nested in the beard.

8Tääpä kävi lempisiin leukaluihiin,It crept into the tender jawbones,

9haluisiin hampaisiin.into the coveted teeth.

10Hympyräinen, pyöryläinen,A round, rolling thing,

11liinan siemenen kokoinen,the size of a linen seed,

12liinan siemenen näköinen,resembling a linen seed.

13luust' on ruoka pyyettävä,Food must be drawn from bone,

14luust' on ruoka, ei lihasta.from bone, not flesh.

15Jos, Vieno, lienet veistä nosnut,If, Vieno, you’ve borne a knife,

16niin vetehen sinun manoon.then to the water, to your grave.

17Jos mannu lienne maasta nosnut etc;If the corpse has risen from earth,

18kivut mie manoon kansaI banish pains to the grave

19lempisistä leukaluistafrom the tender jawbones,

20kivisiin kallioihin,to stony cliffs,

21rautaisihin rauniohinto iron ruins.

22lempisistä leukaluista etc,from the tender jawbones, etc.,

23syömästä, kaluamasta,from eating, from carving,

24puremasta, jäytämästäfrom biting, from gnawing

25ihoa imehno raukan.the wretched one’s skin.

26Ja tuon̄e mie kivut manoon:And I cast the pains to the grave:

27helmoin kipu emän̄än.the mother’s hem-pain.

28Vieköön kipuja tuon̄eLet pain carry them there,

29kipu vuoren kukkulalle;to the mountain’s peak;

30kivi on keskellä mäkii,a stone amid hills,

31reikä on keskellä kiviia hole amid stones,

32yheksän syllän syvyys,nine fathoms deep,

33kyynäräinen kymmenettä,ten ells in measure,

34sinne mie kivut manoon.there I send the pains.

35Kivut ennen kirkuoon,Let pains scream first,

36paksut paaet parkuoon,thick skulls wail,

37kalliot pakattuoon!let rocks be crushed!

38Ja toraja sie, Tuonen poika,And you, rogue, Death’s son,

39paistut sie, mato Manalan,baked worm of Manala,

40rautaisessa riehtilässä.in an iron coffin.

41Vai jos et niisä kypsy,If you don’t cook there,

42Tuon̄e mie sinua laitaan:I’ll cast you aside:

43pirun pihlajan tyköö,to the devil’s rowan tree,

44mie sinun raualla raken̄an,I’ll build you a coffin,

45vasaralla valmistelen etc.with a hammer I’ll forge you, etc.

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-037365 · Read at SKS ↗

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