Voitelemme, voitelemme
In the SKVR edition: [Pohjanmaa.] Ganander, Kr. ? -1700-luvulla. Törnudd, A. XXXVII, 10. (Reinius, Th. I.)
SKVR textEnglish
Kuoharin Sanat.
1Voitelemme, voitelemme,We anoint, we anoint,
2Tuli voilla voitelemme,We anoint with butters,
3Rauta pojalla voidellahan,To anoint the iron lad,
4Tuli voisa väkevämbi.Fire, buttery, grew stronger.
5Tummene sinä tulonen,Darken, you little fire,
6Vaimene sinä valkiainen,Fade, you bright one,
7Tule tuntumattomaxi,Become imperceptible,
8Vaimene varattomaxi.Fade into helplessness.
9Iske tulta Ilmarinen,Strike fire, Ilmarinen,
10Välähytä väinämoinen,Flash, radiant one!,
11Kolmella, kokon sulalla,With three, a melted pyre,
12Kirjavalla kärmehellä,With a mottled serpent,
13Matavalla maan madolla,With earth's crawling worm,
14Viritä tuli soronen,Arrange the feeble fire,
15Lampihin kalattomaan,Into fishless waters,
16Aivan ahvenettomaan,Utterly perchless,
17Päivinä muutamina,On altered days,
18Aikona monikaina,In manifold eras,
19Välähytä tuli soronen,Flash, feeble fire,
20Lampihin kalallisehenInto fish-filled waters,
21Aivan ahvenellisehen,Fully perch-laden,
22Tuli lohi punanen,Fire, a red salmon,
23Nieli tuon siviän sijan,Swallowed the gray place,
24Tuli kalanen karsi,Fire-fish scraped!,
25Nieli tuon lohen punasen,Swallowed the red salmon,
26Ehtittijmpä viliätä,We hastened to scatter,
27Mies pieni merestä nousi,A small man rose from sea,
28Uros allosta ylöni,A hero from the abyss arose,
29Sori sormehen surunen,A pebble in the finger's joint,
30Pysty peukalon pitunen,A thumb's-length upright,
31Hijessä sucka, jäsä kengä.Silent sock, broken shoe.
32Tuohi tänne joutuohon,Birchbark arrived here,
33Vili kalasen karihin,Scattered fish to shoals,
34Vili lohen punasen,Scattered the red salmon,
35Viltin siviä sijka,The gray blanket's patch,
36Löyttijn puna keränen,Found a red cluster,
37Löyttijn tuli soronen.Found the feeble fire.
38Tuostapa sitte synty synty,Thence came birth, birth,
39Tuostapa sitte kasvo kasvo,Thence came growth, growth,
40Kyllä tiedän synnyntysi,Truly I know your birth,
41Tiedän kaiken kasvantosi.I know all your growth.
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-067138 · Read at SKS ↗
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