Harakka istu aidan päällä
In the SKVR edition: Tornio. PLK. R 15. -15.
SKVR textEnglish
1Harakka istu aidan päällä,Magpie sat on the fence,
2Luki näitä naulan päitä,Counted these nail-heads,
3Joita piti olemaan siis kuuskymmentä.Which were meant to be sixty thus.
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-065098 · Read at SKS ↗
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