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Näkki maalle

SKVR XII2 7987·Kittilä·1920·Collector: Paulaharju, Samuli

In the SKVR edition: Kittilä. Paulaharju 8700. -20. Kaukonen. Tuomas Kaukonen, n. 70 v.

Song type: Uimaan mennessä

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SKVR textEnglish
Uimaan
pulimaan kun mentiin, sanottiin:
1Näkki maalle,(To the) Näkki, to the land,
2Minä veteen!I (will go) into the water!

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-070751 · Read at SKS ↗

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