Mansikka mäellä huutaa
In the SKVR edition: Säkkijärvi, Kolhola. Alava 50. 90. Vappu Harju, 35 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mansikka mäellä huutaa:The strawberry on the hill calls out:
2"Tule, neito, nokkimaan,"Come, maiden, to peck [the berries],
3Punaposki poimimaan,Red-cheeked one, to gather,
4Ennenkun etenat syövät,Before the slugs devour [them],
5Matolaiset maahan kaateleevat!"The worms cast them to the ground!"
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 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-072287 · Read at SKS ↗
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