Ähkynen mäyrynen
In the SKVR edition: Eräjärvi. Tyyskä (1384) n. 3*. -03. Aleksanteri Ahlgrén, n. 70 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Ähkyn luku.
1Ähkynen mäyrynenGrowler, earth-scuttler
2kyllä mää sun kotos tiälän.Truly, I know your home.
3Mistä siin oot kotoisinWhere are you from?
4Sinä olet kosken kuahuist koottuYou are pieced together from the rapids' roar.
5Velen vahlosta veletty.Cast from a brother's might (or falsehood).
6Mutta minä kokoon karhut kankahilta,But I gather bears from the heaths,
7kontimet kivcn kolusta,limbs from the stone's den,
8Ähkyä syämään myyrystämään.To moan storms into the heart.
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-057951 · Read at SKS ↗
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