Uupu kannel kahta kieltä

SKVR XIII1 1159·Antrea·1849·Collector: Reinholm, H. A.

In the SKVR edition: Antrea. Reinholm XII 56. 49.

SKVR textEnglish

1Uupu kannel kahta kieltä,Cease, kantele, your two tongues/strings,

2Uupu kieltä keskimäistä,Cease the middlemost tongue/string,

3Toista kieltä reunimmaista.The other tongue/string at the edge.

4Saatiin kannel valmihiksi;We made the kantele ready;

5Panin sormet soutimeksi,I set my fingers as oars,

6Kätteni meren melaksi.My hands as the sea's paddle.

7(Ei näillä etääni souva,)(With these, no distance is reached,)

8Sousin Suomen rantaselle:I rowed to Finland's shore:

9Suomen neijot sotkemassa,Finland's maidens washing,

10Valkoset valostamassa.Bleaching the white linens.

11Mie on kysyn neitosilt':I asked the maidens:

12"Onko suoja Suomen ranta,"Is Finland's shore sheltered,

13Ongos tila yötä olla,Is there space to spend the night,

14Lentolintusen levätä?"For a flying bird to rest?"

15Neijot vastaten sanovat:The maidens answered:

16"Kyll' on suoja Suomen ranta,"Indeed, Finland's shore is sheltered,

17Kyll' on tila yötä olla,Indeed, there's space to spend the night,

18Lentolintusen levätä."For a flying bird to rest."

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.

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