Läksin puolaan polonen

SKVR XIII1 50·Sakkola·1848·Collector: Reinholm, H. A.

In the SKVR edition: Sakkola. Reinholm N I 37 b. 48.

SKVR textEnglish

1Läksin puolaan polonenI went, poor one, to the forest edge

2Ja katala karpaloon.And the lowly one to the cranberry marsh.

3Poimin puoloja putinan,I gathered lingonberries into a heap,

4Kapa verran karpaloi,A kapa's worth of cranberries,

5Va'i verran vaapukkoi,A little measure of cloudberries,

6Vein emolle tuomisiksi.I brought them to Mother as offerings.

7Annon kättä kiukoalle:I reached my hand toward the hearth:

8"Ylös emo kiukoalta!""Rise up, Mother, from the hearth!"

9Vello vastas pöyvän päästä:Brother answered from the bench's end:

10"Ei o eukko kiukoalla;"No old woman is on the hearth;

11Emo o kuollut kuusi vuotta,Mother died six years ago,

12Koaonut kaheksan vuotta."She has rested eight years."

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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