Uhon uppu äijän poika
In the SKVR edition: Kuhmoniemi. Krohn 14616. -85. Reetu Partanen, 72 v., kotoisin Sonkajärven Vänninmäestä. Kuullut vanhalta sotamieheltä Olli Kemppaiselta Kuhmoniemellä.
SKVR textEnglish
Sisilisko.
1Uhon uppu äijän poika,Ukko's son, the great man's child,
2Upottaren pojan poika.The water's/drowner's grandson,
3Mies pitkä pimentolassa,A tall man in the realm of shadows,
4Kasarinen kaunis neiti,The smith's/curly-haired fair maiden,
5Tule haavas tuntemaan,Come to know your wound,
6Vikasi parantamaan!To heal your ailment!
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-067823 · Read at SKS ↗
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