"Sinun vesi, minun voi."

SKVR X2 4359·Tyrvää·1895·Collector: Äijälä, H.

In the SKVR edition: Tyrvää. Äijälä H, n. 50. -95. Myllyn Maija.

SKVR textEnglish

Kun voin onnee koitettiin toisesta asunnosta toiseen, niin emäntä otti kirnun männän ja meni ja pisti sen toisen asunnon navetan akkunasta sisään ja kiersi sitä siinä ja hoki että:

1"Sinun vesi, minun voi.""Your water, my power/butter." (Dual interpretation hinges on *voi*: literal "butter" implies material exchange; figurative "power" suggests spiritual/ritual claim.)

Se piti vaan tapahtuman niin, ettei sitä kukaan huomaisi.

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’ 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-058484 · Read at SKS ↗

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