Hei voita pohjahan asti!
In the SKVR edition: Ilmajoki. Sallmén n. 27. -91. Antti Talvitie, 38 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Voin onnia kirnutes saarahan
kun sanotahan:
1Hei voita pohjahan asti!Oh, butter (or endurance) all the way to the North!
2Sinne sukus syntysThere, in your kin, they were born.
3Konttikorttikohon!Up with the basket, the trap! (or: Rise, bones, rise!)
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-062062 · Read at SKS ↗
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