Kavet päästi päivän paistamaan
In the SKVR edition: [Pohjanmaa.] Ganander Myth. fenn. s. 35. -1789.
SKVR textEnglish
1Kavet päästi päivän paistamaan,[The agent] cleared the way to set the sun shining,
2Päästi kuun kuumottamahan.[They] released the moon to kindle its glow.
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-062666 · Read at SKS ↗
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