Yksi jyvä syyäksesi!
In the SKVR edition: Nurmes. Krohn n. 9938. -85. Yrjö Sorsa, 55 v, Kaavin Niinivaara.
SKVR textEnglish
Hiirille.
Kun on heiniä tahi mitä auma, niin sitte pohja lasketaan aumasta, yksi kerta vaan siitä otetaan, sitte pientä kivee jalalleen nostoo ja viskata:
1Yksi jyvä syyäksesi!One grain for you to eat!
Toisella kertaa:
2Toinen jyvä syyäksesi!Another grain for you to eat!
Kolmannella:
3Kolmas jyvä kuoltaks'esi!Third grain for you to die!
Se kuoloo hiiri sitte.
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.
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-039992 · Read at SKS ↗
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