Siikanen sinun nimesi
In the SKVR edition: Sotkamo. Krohn 030. -82. Pekka Ronkainen, 53 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Peltosiikanen.
1Siikanen sinun nimesi,Little Whitefish is your name,
2Siikanen sinä itekin.You yourself are Little Whitefish.
3Piharikka, pellonkukka,Yard-dweller, field-flower,
4Kää pois, palaja sieltä!Turn back, return from there!
5Älä mee synkkahän salohon:Don’t go to the gloom! Into the wilds:
6Synkkä salo eessäsi,The dark forest lies ahead,
7Lie(ko) meri takanasi.Perhaps the sea is behind you?
8Älä mene synkkähänl salohon,Don’t go into the gloomy wilds,
9Kää pois liekaan merroon,Turn back from flame to sea,
10Vein vaahtena vallau,I led like foam surging forth,
11Meren muikuna mujjau!I darted like the sea’s vendace!
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.
- The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.
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-067095 · Read at SKS ↗
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