Pehmene rauta, kovene jalka!
In the SKVR edition: Tyrvää. Äijälä H. n. 151. -95. Iso Heikki.
SKVR textEnglish
Kun sylkee käteensä ja vetää pitkin vikatteen terää 3 kertaa eðestakasin ja sanoo joka kerralla:
1Pehmene rauta, kovene jalka!Soften the iron, harden the foot!
niin voi kävellä vikatteen terän päälla, niin ettei yhtään me haavaa jalkoin.
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 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-056278 · Read at SKS ↗
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