Höröstä hyvä Jumala

SKVR XIII1 501·Uusikirkko Vpl.·1847·Collector: Reinholm, H. A.

In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko. Reinholm N X 31. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

Paimen laulu.

1Höröstä hyvä JumalaFrom the thunder, good God,

2Satamasta tuulemasta,From the harbor's winds,

3Pitämästä pilvisäitä!From withholding cloudbursts!

4Mie virka siun emoisI chant your mother's

5Kiven takan kellerissä,In the cellar behind the stone,

6Tupasess' turkin alla,In the chamber under the fur,

7Aitassa patojen allaIn the storehouse under pots,

8Kulta kangasta katoo,The gold fabric vanishes,

9Hopiasta herskyttää.The silver rustles faintly.

10Taittuu yksi kulta lanka,One gold thread snaps,

11Helähti hopia lanka.A silver thread clinks.

12Tuota neito itkemähän.Then the maiden wept,

13"Älä itke, neito parka,"Don't weep, poor maiden,

14Kyll' on kulta kupissa,The gold's in the cup,

15Hopia hunnun alla,Silver under the veil,

16Vaski oo vain sisässä,Copper's just inside,

17Langan päitä laatikossa."Thread-ends in the box."

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.
The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.

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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