Silloin itkin ilman syyttä

SKVR XIII1 1988·Rautu·1854·Collector: Ahlqvist, A. E.

In the SKVR edition: Rautu. Ahlqvist A 402. 54.

SKVR textEnglish

1Silloin itkin ilman syyttä,Then I wept without reason,

2ilman vaivoitta valitin,without troubles I lamented,

3kun itkin ison sylissä,when I wept in the elder's lap,

4par'uin eukon parmahilla,on the finest old woman's knees,

5nyt ois syitä itkemistä,now there would be reasons to weep,

6vaivoja valittamista,troubles to lament,

7kelles nyt poloinen poika,to whom now, poor boy,

8kelle vikani virkkan,to whom do I confess my faults,

9kelle vaivani valitan?to whom do I tell my woes?

10Ei ole sitä sisoista,There is no sister,

11lasta laatuisan emosen,child of a noble mother,

12jolle virkkelen vikani,to whom I'd speak my faults,

13kelle vaivani valitan.to whom I'd tell my woes.

14Menen metsähän kesälläI go to the forest in summer,

15puhetessa putken juuren,speaking to the cow parsley's root,

16lehen kannan kasvaessa,as the leaf's stalk grows,

17nuo ei kerro kellenkänä,they tell no one,

18kullenkana kuihuttele,nor hasten to anyone,

19haastan haavan lehtosille,I speak to the aspen groves,

20pakajan pajun vesoille,to the goat willow's shoots,

21tungen tuomen kukkasille,press close to bird cherry blossoms,

22kanerville kaikatelen.to the heather I echo my cries.

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.

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