Kiikun kaakun kissa jalkka
In the SKVR edition: Salo. Koskenpää Marita 10. 13.
SKVR textEnglish
1Kiikun kaakun kissa jalkkaRocking, swaying, the cat's leg
2Huomis päivä joulu alkka.Tomorrow the day, Christmas begins.
3Kissa kuoli kiirul ajalThe cat died in squirrel-time / a hurried time.
4Kukas kissa riihe tappaWho then killed the cat into the threshing barn?
5Kissa koto kuolleen makka.The cat at home lies dead.
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-044134 · Read at SKS ↗
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