Voisin päivää suksiain
In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko. Reinholm A I 24. 47.
SKVR textEnglish
1Voisin päivää suksiain,I could ski the day with skis,
2Liuvoin soita, liuvoin maita,I glided over swamps, glided over lands,
3Liuvuin suurilla mäjillä,I slid upon the great hills,
4Tein mä pienosen majasen,I built a little hut,
5Yhen miehen mahtuvaisen,A hut to fit one man,
6Pyssyn pykättäväisen.A gun to be set ready.
7Lensi tuohon musta metso,A black grouse flew there,
8Toinen on punanen kukko.Another is a red rooster.
9Mie kukkoo kupoa vasten:I against the rooster's hollow:
10Kukko maahan kuuvullen,The rooster fell to ground, withering,
11Kanan laps' kaakallen.The chick sprawled on its back.
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-071670 · Read at SKS ↗
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