Nuku, nuku, nukkeraine
In the SKVR edition: Askainen. Saarimaa E. A. 463. 09. Lempoisten Juhantalon vanha emäntä.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nuku, nuku, nukkeraine,Sleep, sleep, sorrowful dear,
2pane maata mansikkaine.lie down, little strawberry child.
3Lintu tua sul liinapaita (!),A bird brings you a linen shirt,
4vesilintu verejä,the waterbird [brings] colors,
5koskeljainen_korvatyynythe rapids-spirit [as] ear-pillow,
6ja pääskynem_pääalune.and our swallow [as] head-rest.
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-042970 · Read at SKS ↗
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