Vares istu kerran aitan katolla
In the SKVR edition: Kemi. PLK. C 1377. -15. Alapaakkolan kk:n oppilaat.
SKVR textEnglish
1Vares istu kerran aitan katolla,The crow once sat on the storehouse roof,
2Luki niitä näitä malanpäitä,Counted these and those heads of the earth [graves],
3Joita piti olla viisi ja viisitoistakymmentä.Which were meant to be five and fifteen.
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-065147 · Read at SKS ↗
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