Olin minä onnimanni
In the SKVR edition: Alastaro. Vihervaara. n. 2343. -11. Sikilä. Vilho Vieno, 45 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Olin minä onnimanni,I was a lucky/apple-man,
2Onnimannista matikka,From the lucky-man, a journey,
3Matikasta maitopyärä,From the journey, a milk-vessel,
4Maitopyärästä pöperö,From the milk-vessel, a crumb,
5Pöperöstä pöytärinki,From the crumb, a table-ring,
6Pöytärinkistä rimake,From the table-ring, a small rim,
7Rimakkeesta rintasolki,From the rim, a chest-brooch,
8Rintasoljesta sorike,From the brooch, a gravel-bit,
9Sorikkeesta sormuskimppu,From the gravel-bit, a ring-bundle,
10Sormuskimpusta kipinä,From the ring-bundle, a spark,
11Kipinästä kirjanmerkki,From the spark, a book-mark,
12Kirjanmerkistä meteli,From the book-mark, a clamor,
13Metelistä miäliherra,From the clamor, a mind-lord,
14Miäliherrasta hevonen,From the mind-lord, a horse,
15Hevosesta heinäsirkka,From the horse, a grasshopper,
16Heinäsirkasta sinikello,From the grasshopper, a bluebell,
17Sinikellosta kekäle,From the bluebell, an ember,
18Kekäleestä kenkäraaja,From the ember, a shoe-limb,
19Kenkäraajasta rapakko,From the shoe-limb, mud,
20Rapakosta rairanhaara,From the mud, an alder-branch,
21Rairanhaarasta harakka,From the alder-branch, a magpie,
22Harakasta hankonvarsi,From the magpie, a pole-shaft,
23Hankonvarresta vatukka,From the pole-shaft, a raspberry,
24Vatukasta vaimononni,From the raspberry, wife's luck,
25Vaimononnesta omena,From the wife's luck, an apple,
26Omenasta onnimanni.From the apple, the lucky-man.
(Siitä taas takasin.)
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-055452 · Read at SKS ↗
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