Ähky poika ähmäröinen
In the SKVR edition: Östmark, Glekärn. Gottlund. 792. -1/12 1821. Ingeborg Mattsdotter Tenhuinen.
SKVR textEnglish
Ähkyn.
1Ähky poika ähmäröinen,Clumsy boy, shadowy one,
2Toinen poika Tohmeroinen,Another boy, Tohmeroinen,
3Ett sinä ot kovan koreista tehty,That you are made hard from baskets,
4Koivun kuoreista kooutu,Assembled from birch bark,
5Vein vaaxoista vanottettu,Soaked from sapwood,
6Ehk oisit tehty ilman ilkeistä,Perhaps you were made without evils,
7Syvemän sykärtelia,A deeper digger,
8Napa nuoran vääntälia.Navel, the rope-twister.
9Tuone ma sinun manoanI bring you to the underworld,
10Kirjavan lohen kitaan,Into the speckled salmon's maw,
11Hauvin mustan hartiollen.Onto the black pike's shoulders.
12Tuonema sinun manoon,I bring you to the underworld,
13Sorkiin sotahevoista,To the hooves of warhorses,
14Miesten tappo tantereilla.Men's slaughter on battlefields.
15Tuonema sinun manon,I bring you to the underworld,
16Sini(sen) sirkun kiiettällä,With the blue tit's swiftness,
17Leivon mustan lenettällä.On the black swan's flight.
18Tuonema sinua manoan,I bring you to the underworld,
19Keskellä kipumekeä,Amidst the throng of pain,
20kipuvuoren kukkuroilla,On Pain Mountain's ridges.
21Sielä sulle on neito kivuista tehty,There, a maiden of pains awaits you,
22Ilman vyöllä vyöttämätä,Unbelted without a belt,
23Panemata palkemella,Unlaid upon the beam,
24Kourin helmansa kokoo,Gathering her skirts,
25kipuia toivoissa.Hoping for pains.
26Tuonema sinua manon,I bring you to the underworld,
27Heiluvaan helvettiin,To swaying hell,
28Läilyvän lehteiseen,To the fluttering grove,
29jon̄eka puut tyvin putoivat,Where trees fall root-first,
30Heinät lattvoin lankiavat!Grasses collapse stalk-first!
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.
- 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-041010 · Read at SKS ↗
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