Tänäpänä kuin kirkko
In the SKVR edition: Kuru. Pohjankanervo T, n. 91. -18/7 31. Pappila. Lehtori Paavo Numminen.
SKVR textEnglish
Äkämää parannettaessa:
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2Tänäpänä kuin kirkkoToday like a church
3huomenna kuin kirppuTomorrow like a flea
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5Levitä reites,Spread your thighs,
6hajota haarasScatter your branches,
7osta helvetin tuleen.Buy! Into hell's fire.
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.
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-057209 · Read at SKS ↗
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