Riihimies mulle jüviä annoit
In the SKVR edition: Kittilä. Salminen, V. 105. -04. Kaukonen. Emanuel Palovaara. Kuullut sisareltaan, joka sen taas kuuli Kelontekemän Lenkolan mummolta.
SKVR textEnglish
1Riihimies mulle jüviä annoit,The barn-keeper gave me grains,
2Mie net jüvät kalamiehille,I gave those grains to the fishermen,
3Kalamiehet mulle kaloja annoit,The fishermen gave me fish in return,
4Mie net kalat koirille,I gave those fish to the dogs,
5Koira mulle oravan haukko,The dog caught a squirrel for me,
6Mie sen oravan papille paistiks,I roasted that squirrel for the priest,
7Pappi minulle paian anto,The priest gave me a head [or shirt],
8Mie sen paian vaivasille,I gave that head to the poor,
9Vaivaset minulle vasikan juotit,The poor watered/provided me a calf,
10Josta kasusi suuri sonni,From it grew a great bull,
11Joltei henkeä saatu.From whom no breath could be taken [too mighty to control],
12Nousipa merestä miesi,A man rose from the sea,
13Sormen kolmen korkukainen.Three fingers in height,
14Joka siltä heŋŋen sai,Who received breath from him,
15Josta sata tünnüriäFrom which a hundred barrels
16Lihhaa liikenemmään oli.Of meat were more than enough.
17Häntä sillä pitkä Hämehessä.With it, a long tail [or the bull] in Häme,
18Viiru pääskünen päivää kuusi,A striped sparrow for six days,
19Eikä päässü päästä päähän. - -Could not fly from one end to the other.
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-062688 · Read at SKS ↗
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