Käin mä päivän, vestin lauvan

SKVR XIII1 210·Uusikirkko Vpl.·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko, Makula. Europ. K 377. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Käin mä päivän, vestin lauvan,I spent a day, built a dinghy,

2Käin mä toisen, tein venosen,I spent a second, made a small boat,

3Lykkäsin venon vetehen,I pushed the boat into the water,

4Panin poikia sisähän,I placed oars inside,

5Laitoin laivat juoksemahan,I set the ships to sail,

6Laivat juoksit muille maille,The ships raced to distant lands,

7Joss olivat puut punaiset,Where the trees were red,

8Puut punaiset, maat siniset,Red trees, blue lands,

9Keltaiset petäjän kerkät.Yellow pine treetops.

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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