Mies meni metsään
In the SKVR edition: Kankaanpää. Palonen n. 12. -59.
SKVR textEnglish
Toisin.
[Ks. n:o 3341.]
1Mies meni metsään,The man went into the forest,
2Tuli koi vastaan.A moth came to meet him.
3Mies kysyi: Minkäs paha koi menet?The man asked: Where are you going, evil moth?
4Ihmisen luun ja lihan väliin.Into the space between human bone and flesh.
5Mene pois paha koi,Go away, evil moth,
6Ihmisen luun ja lihan välistä,From between the human's bone and flesh,
7Siihen järveen, joka palaa,To that lake which burns,
8Tulesta ja tulikivestä.From fire and fire-stone.
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-057423 · Read at SKS ↗
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