Harakka istui aidan päällä
In the SKVR edition: Kolari. PLK. F 2. -15. Kolarinkylän kk:n oppilaat.
SKVR textEnglish
1Harakka istui aidan päällä,A magpie sat on the fence,
2Noukki niitä näitä naulanpäitä.Plucked these and those nail-heads.
3Yksi, kaksi, kolmeme, neljä, viisi, kuusi.One, two, three!, four, five, six.
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.
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-065180 · Read at SKS ↗
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