Karhu nouse kankahalta
In the SKVR edition: Viljakkala. Servo n. 8. -13.
SKVR textEnglish
Karhua kutsutaan vihamiehen karjaan:
1Karhu nouse kankahalta,Bear, rise from the heath,
2hiisi helvetin tulesta![You,] demon, from hell's fire!
3Käänny säkeen ja väännä mäkeen!Turn into the thicket and wrench toward the hill!
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-058632 · Read at SKS ↗
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