Narin kerä
In the SKVR edition: Kankaanpää. Laiho n. 349. -90. Miina Hakola, 59 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Narin sanat.
1"Narin kerä,A coil of cord,
2Neulan silmä,The needle's eye,
3Langan solmu.The thread's knot.
4Nari juoksee pitkin tiätä,The cord runs along the path,
5Jalaat viippaa, vaappaa."Feet swing, sway unsteadily.
Nämät sanat luetaan 3 kertaan nari-jäseneen.
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.
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-057601 · Read at SKS ↗
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