Piika piinoa pitävi
In the SKVR edition: Ilomantsi. Eur. G, n. 125. -46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Piika piinoa pitävi,The maiden endures torment,
2Vaimo vaivoa näkeviThe wife sees troubles,
3Huonehessa honkasessa,In the spruce-walled house,
4Pertissä petäjäisessä.In the pine-built cottage.
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6Kuin ollet mies tuleva,If you are a man coming,
7Tule, mies, melun keralla,Come, man, with clamor,
8Uros urhosellen!Hero, heroically!
9Kuin ollet piika tuleva,If you are a maiden coming,
10Tule piika pienemmästi,Come maiden more quietly,
11Tyttölapsi tyynemmästi.Girl-child, more calmly.
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.
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-038504 · Read at SKS ↗
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