Älä päästä pois, ennen kuin
In the SKVR edition: Hämeenkyrö. Kulkas n. 1. -06. "Kustaa", 80 v. Mp. Tampereella.
SKVR textEnglish
Noita temppuja varkaan pidämisen:
Ruumiin, luita hautausmaasta laitetaan siihen paikaan, josta pelätään varkaita, ja sanotaan:
1"Älä päästä pois, ennen kuin"Do not let [them] go, before/until"
2minä itse tulen käskemään","I myself will come to command [it]."
niin varas jää siihen.
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-059405 · Read at SKS ↗
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