Jos olet ajos, niin alene
In the SKVR edition: Kankaanpää. Oukari (Laiho) n. 31. -89. Aleksandra Kivijärvi, 20 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Ajoksen sanat.
1Jos olet ajos, niin alene,If you are in motion, then descend,
2Jos olet paisunta, niin pakene!If you are swelling, then flee!
3Pantun paltun paksummaksi,Let the cloth be made thicker,
4Tuhannen kirkon korkiaksi.To the height of a thousand churches.
5Jolles pääse niin korkealle,If you cannot reach such heights,
6Niin älä yritäkkään!Then do not even attempt it!
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’ signs inside the verses ([ ], ⌈ ⌉, *, [!], [?]) are left out, as in the poem reader; the letters they enclose are kept.
- 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-057160 · Read at SKS ↗
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