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Mato kalal, kala minul

SKVR VIII 424·Pertteli·1914·Collector: Kallio, Niilo

In the SKVR edition: Pertteli. Kallio Niilo 1674. 14. K. O. Joutsen.

Song type: Kalamiehen vala

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SKVR textEnglish
1Mato kalal, kala minulA worm on the fish, the fish on me
2ja kalan pää pirul!and the fish's head on the devil!
(Onkijan sanat.)

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.

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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-041518 · Read at SKS ↗

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