"Menkää pois, punaselkäset, älkääkä tänne enään tulko!"
In the SKVR edition: Mouhijärvi. Hannus n. 97. -89. Eskola. Anna Hurska, 49 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Toinen tapa luteita poistettaessa.
Pannaan päreitä yhteen mittaan, keskeltä huonetta ruveten oven suuhun asti, kynnyksen yli, ja sanotaan:
1"Menkää pois, punaselkäset, älkääkä tänne enään tulko!""Go away, red-backed ones, and do not come here anymore!"
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-059239 · Read at SKS ↗
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