Metsän ehtosa emäntä
In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Krohn n. 5666. -84. Shemeikka. Iivana Jefimöv Shemeikka 43 v. Saman tunsi Paavo Hämäläinen Impilahden Rägälistä.
SKVR textEnglish
Lintum[ies]
kun lähtöö metsään.
1Metsän ehtosa emäntä,Mistress of the forest's evening,
2Metsän kultanen kuningas,Golden king of the forest,
3Tules kullan kuultaville,Come forth, golden one, to be heard,
4Hopian on vaihoksille,To silver's exchange grounds,
5Jossa kulta kuullaapi,Where gold resounds,
6Hopeainen paistaapiThe silvery one shines,
7Miun metšälle tullessani;When I come to my forest;
8Jos lintu liikkunoo,If a bird stirs,
9Metsän outo ollonnoo,The forest's eerie being,
10Alaoksilla aseta,Set [it] on the lower branches,
11Rautaoksalla rakenda,Secure [it] to the iron branch,
12Josta se nuoli noppavaapi,From which the arrow snatches,
13Tinapilli riuvasoopi!The tin flute screeches!
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-039027 · Read at SKS ↗
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