Mejän pienet kananpojat
In the SKVR edition: Kemi. PLK. C 1345. -15. Alapaakkolan kk:n oppilaat.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mejän pienet kananpojatOur little chicks
2Menivät herraslatoon,Went to the master's barn,
3Söivät sieltä piparuutin, paparuutin.Ate from there pepper-powder, bean-powder.
4Kiiskaas, koukkuun, koira huusi loukkoon."Snatch! To the hook! The dog barked into the crevice!"
5Yks, kaks, kapalolaps!One, two, bundle-child!
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’ signs inside the verses ([ ], ⌈ ⌉, *, [!], [?]) are left out, as in the poem reader; the letters they enclose are kept.
- 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-064730 · Read at SKS ↗
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