Nuku, nuku nukkarainen
In the SKVR edition: Kuusjoki. Kallio V. J. 339. 09.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nuku, nuku nukkarainenSleep, sleep, little sleepyhead
2Pane maata mansikkainenLie down, strawberry dear
3Maata yksi, maata toinenLie down one, lie down two
4Maata Matti Maijas kansLie down Matti with Maija
5Pietti pitkän Pirjes kansPietti the long-limbed with Pirjo
6Ja maata minäkin menen.And I too will lie down
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-042945 · Read at SKS ↗
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