En ole musta luoinen musta

SKVR XIII1 1960·Rautu·1854·Collector: Ahlqvist, A. E.

In the SKVR edition: Rautu. Ahlqvist A 456. 54.

Song type: En ole musta luonnon musta - huolista

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SKVR textEnglish

1En ole musta luoinen musta,I am not black, created by blackness,

2en musta emon tekemä,nor made by a sorrowful mother,

3mie olen musta murhettani

4sekä kaita kaihojani.and all my yearnings.

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies. Lines without English have no translation, or one that cannot be matched to the line with certainty.

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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-073510 · Read at SKS ↗

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