Varis istuu aijan päällä
In the SKVR edition: Kiiminki. Paulaharju, Aili 42. -16. Tervajärven tytöt.
SKVR textEnglish
1Varis istuu aijan päällä,The crow sits atop time's span,
2Lukee niitä, näitä,Counting those and these,
3Laurin päitä,Lauri's heads,
4Joita pitää ollawhich must number
5Viis-toista kymmentä.fifteen tens [150].
Luetaan ja piirretään joka sanalle merkki, joita tulee olemaan viisitoista (viis-toista luetaan kahdeksi sanaksi).
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.
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-071085 · Read at SKS ↗
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