Seuraas_sinä lehmä minua
In the SKVR edition: Karvia. Kaukamaa L, n. 545. -27/6 30. Suomijärvenkylä. Josefiina Suomijärvi, 78 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Lehmän ikävöinti.
Kun lehmä tahtoi palata entiseen kotiin, sanoi eräs karvialainen eukko:
1Seuraas_sinä lehmä minua,You follow me, cow,
2niinkuin perkelelike the devil [or primal chaos],
3seuras sitä lautamiestä,you followed that lay juror,
4joka väärin vannowho swore falsely
5ja oikein tiesi.yet knew the truth.
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-058269 · Read at SKS ↗
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