Maa pidätä mattoo
In the SKVR edition: Tyrvää. Järvinen. n. 49 c. -53.
SKVR textEnglish
1Maa pidätä mattoo,Earth, hold the worm,
2Piru pientä kärmettä!Devil, [hold] the tiny serpent!
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-056972 · Read at SKS ↗
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