Voi minua poloinen poika
In the SKVR edition: Sotkamo. Krohn 018. -82. Pekka Ronkainen, 53 v.
SKVR textEnglish
[Metsä.]
1Voi minua poloinen poika,Alas, me, the wretched boy,
2Poikoa polon alaista,A boy of lowly wretchedness,
3Kuin ei kuulu koirianaThat I’m not heard as a dog
4Viiassa vitiseväksi,To whine in the thicket,
5Havon alle haukkuvaksi!To bark beneath the fir!
6Vain hiihata hihasta miestä,Only to tug a man’s sleeve,
7Saata sauan sompelosta,To pull the staff from its socket,
8Veäpä verkakauluksesta!Yank from the net-collar!
9Saata sille saarekselle,Take it to that islet,
10Sille kummulle kuleta,To that mound to perish,
11Josta saalis saataisihin,Where prey might be brought,
12Metsä tuoni tuotaisihin,Forest’s death might be delivered,
13Alle kuivan kurkihirren,Under the dry crossbeam,
14Päälle pinnatun petäjän!Upon the layered pine!
15Joko nyt piiat pirtin pessy,Have the maids now washed the cottage,
16Vaimot laattian lakassu?Women swept the floor?
17Saisinko nyt tupahan tulla?May I now enter the house?
(Sitte tuli lupa.)
18Jopa nyt on piiat pirtin pessy,Indeed, the maids have washed the cottage,
19Saampa nyt tupahan tulla,I may now enter the house,
20Savuseinähin sisähän.Into the sooty-walled interior.
21Kolme on nyt kynnystä metässä.Three thresholds now in the forest.
22Menninki metän emäntä,Go then, forest’s mistress,
23Tuo mulle metän olutta,Bring me the forest’s beer,
24Metsän mettä juotakseni!Forest’s honey for me to drink!
25Metsässä on mettä paljo,In the forest, honey is plentiful,
26Metän on mesi makea.The forest’s honey is sweet.
27Kolme on kynnystä metässä,Three thresholds are in the forest,
28Yksi on puinen, toinen luinen,One is wooden, the second bony,
29Kolmas on lihanen kynnys.The third a threshold of flesh.
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.
- 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-069128 · Read at SKS ↗
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