Mato musta maan alaanen
In the SKVR edition: Teuva. Korpela n. 188. -89. Kirkonkylä. Juho Mahlamäki, synt. Jurvan Järvenpäässä.
SKVR textEnglish
Hiiren sanat, ett'ei se heiniä syö.
1Mato musta maan alaanen,Black worm, dweller beneath the earth,
2Toukka tuonen karvaanen,Grub of Death, the shaggy one,
3Ei sun tuu näihin enempää,You shall not come here anymore,
4Kuin hiiren kovaasimehen,Than a mouse's hardened tool,
5Eli saatanan taivaan valtakuntahan.Or to Satan's heavenly kingdom.
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 edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.
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-062107 · Read at SKS ↗
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