Neitsy Mari vähene
In the SKVR edition: Isojoki. Arho n. 35. -89.
SKVR textEnglish
Valkean pidätyssanat.
Tehdään ensin piiri valkean eteen ja sanotaan:
1Neitsy Mari vähene,Virgin Mary, the humble one,
2Ota jätä emonen,Take the abandoned one as mother,
3Jollas tulen tukahutatWhen you smother the fire,
4Ja valkeanvaaran vapautat!And free [us] from the white peril!
5Seiso siinä niinkuin seinä,Stand there like a wall,
6Niinkuin Jordanin-virta!Like the Jordan River!
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-062167 · Read at SKS ↗
Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.