Lähemmä neittä naittamahan
In the SKVR edition: Korpiselkä. Koskinen n. 22. -03. Mihael Vornanen, 57 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Naitto virsi.
[Sävelmä.]
1Lähemmä neittä naittamahan,"We go to marry off the maidens,"
2miestä viemähän vihille,"to take the man to the wedding,"
3tämän neijon naittaessa,"when marrying off this maiden,"
4miestä viiessä vihille j.n.e."while taking the man to the wedding, 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’ 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-040337 · Read at SKS ↗
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