Ei oo miulla kurjasella
In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko, Makula. Europ. K 378. 47.
SKVR textEnglish
1Ei oo miulla kurjasellaI, the wretched one, have none
2Eikä kurjalla tytöllä,Nor does the poor girl have any
3Ei ole hurstin huolijata,No caretaker for the burial structure
4Ei vaipan varustajata.No preparer for the shroud
5Itse mie huolin hurstistani,I myself tended to my burial structure
6Itse vaipaini varustin.I myself prepared my shroud
7Löysin tieltä tervaskannon,I found a tar bucket on the road
8Tuon alta emoa etsin.Under it I sought a mother
9Armoton isoton poika,A pitiless fatherless son
10Aivan armoton emoton,Utterly pitiless, motherless
11Ei oo turvaa tuvassa,No shelter in the house
12Armoa katoksen alla,No mercy under the roof
13Tuoll on turva turpehessa,There is shelter in the peat
14Armo arkun kannen alla.Mercy under the coffin's lid
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-073674 · Read at SKS ↗
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