Läksin meren kylpemään

SKVR XIII1 82·Etelä-Karjala·1837·Collector: Lönnrot, Elias

In the SKVR edition: ? Lönnrot R 256. 37.

SKVR textEnglish

1Läksin meren kylpemään,I went to bathe in the sea,

2Tuli hauki hangotellen,Came a pike, jaws agape,

3Lohen poika longotellen,The salmon's offspring swaying,

4Otti paitani pajulta,Took my shirt from the willow,

5Hamet haavan oksaselta,My skirt from the aspen's branch,

6Vyöni vyöteli vesalta,My belt from the sapling girded,

7Sormikkaa somerikolta,Gloves from the gravelly bank,

8Helmet hiekkarantaselta,Beads from the sandy shore,

9Kengät kylmältä kiveltä,Shoes from the cold stone,

10Pintelini pientarelta.My headband from the tiny strand.

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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