Vingas Vankahan makasi
In the SKVR edition: Suomussalmi. Sjögren XX, 405. -1820-luvun alusta. Kappalaisen K. Saxan kokoelmasta.
SKVR textEnglish
Sikaliskon Synty.
1Vingas Vankahan makasiThe demon Vankkainen lay sleeping,
2Rangalla rekiä vasten,Against the sleigh's shaft-beam,
3Kohti tuomista tupoa,Facing the hut of doom,
4Vasten vaskista kotoa.Pressed to the copper homestead.
5Pihan ricko, pellon ricko,Defiler of yards, defiler of fields,
6Maan ricko, Munan ricko!Defiler of earth, defiler of eggs!
7Kyllä mä sukusi tunnen,I know your lineage well,
8Sukusihi, syntysihi,Your lineage, your vile birth,
9Alla kynnysten asuja,Dweller beneath thresholds,
10Puun juuren pujottelia,Slinking around tree roots,
11Läpi Mättähän mäniä,Crawling through earthen mounds,
12Puun juuren pujottelia.Slinking around tree roots.
13Sinä olet veiko valmistettu,You, lad, were fashioned,
14Tehty Taikon taittumasta,Made from Taikko's splinter,
15Lajosta liko lapion.From a shovel's broken handle.
16Maan komu sinun kotisi,Earth's rubble is your home,
17Pellon piertano pesäsi,A field's weed your nest,
18Laho kanto kartanosi.A rotten stump your manor.
19Kasvot salvos sammalissa,Face cloaked in moss,
20Nurcka nuhossa sikisit,Breeding mold in corners,
21Naisten luckoin lukia,Reader of women's fates,
22Avainten arveli?!Diviner of keys?!
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 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-067855 · Read at SKS ↗
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