Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu
In the SKVR edition: Länsipohja. Haltsonen, S. 5. -32. Lainio. Mikon emäntä.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu,Sleep, sleep, meadow bird,
2Väsy, väsy, västäräkki!Rest, rest, little wagtail!
3Kyllä Herra herättää,The Lord will surely wake [you],
4Vittavarpu virvottaa.The willow rod will rouse [you].
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-063259 · Read at SKS ↗
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