Pyhä Jyrki, syöttäjäni
In the SKVR edition: Suistamo. Krohn n. 7636. -84. Koitonselkä. Feodor Tsannikka, 63 v.
SKVR textEnglish
- - Sitte kuin työnnät, niin sitte sanot:
1Pyhä Jyrki, syöttäjäni,Holy George, my sustainer,
2Kui on hoijit huonehissa,When you are tended in houses,
3Niin hoija hongikossa;Then tend [me] in the pine grove;
4Kui katsot kartanossa,When you gaze in the manor,
5Niin katso kanarvikossaThen gaze in the juniper thicket,
6Kusiaisen kulkiessa,As the dung beetle journeys,
7Lehen maasta liehujessa,A leaf fluttering from the ground,
8Ruohon maassa roihahuossa!Grass ablaze upon the earth!
9Umpi lammit vettä juokaan,May sealed ponds gush water,
10Veit voiksi muuttukaan,Waters turn to butter,
11Maioksi makiat ruuat!Sweet foods to earth transformed!
Siit ei tulla punatauvit, eikä metsän pedot koske, yliset, aliset saat korjata eäreh. (Lampaat samate). - Eikä niihi käy suutelus.
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.
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-039255 · Read at SKS ↗
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