Pääskyläinen sotaan läksi

SKVR XIII1 529·Rautu·1854·Collector: Slöör, Kaarlo

In the SKVR edition: Rautu, Vaskela. Slöör V 52. 54.

SKVR textEnglish

1Pääskyläinen sotaan läksi,The swallow-like one went to war,

2Tinatuppi tappeluhun,The tin-sheathed one to the fray,

3Tinatuppi, vyöhopia,Tin-sheathed, silver-belted,

4Tuotihin sana jälestä:A message came afterward:

5Kaikk on kuollehet kotona.All are dead at home.

6Yks' on ilmoinen isoni,One is my famed father,

7Toinen ehtoinen emoni,The second, my aged mother,

8Kolmas vietra vellosein,Third, my vanished brother,

9Neljäs siityinen sisoni.Fourth, my departed sister.

10Kyll se miiru maahan viepi,Truly, the ant drags to earth,

11Kullan kanssa katselee.With gold it gazes.

12Pääskyläinen sotaan läksi,The swallow-like one went to war,

13Tuoll' on hiusta kuin so'assa,There lies hair like in a swamp,

14Hiukset suolla virvelöiksiHair as willow branches in the swamp,

15Suolla virvelottomalle,For the rodless one in the swamp,

16Silmät suolle karpaloiksi.Eyes as lingonberries in the swamp.

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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