Neito teiltä, neito meiltä

SKVR XIII1 883·Uusikirkko Vpl.·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko, Makula. Europ. K 371. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Neito teiltä, neito meiltä,Maiden from you, maiden from us,

2Neito kolmelta kylältä.Maiden from three villages.

3Tehkääme kivinen kirkkoLet us build a stone church

4Selvälle meren sel'älle,On the clear sea's back,

5Lakehille lainehille.On the broad waves.

6Tuota käivät kaikk kosissa,All went courting her,

7Käivät pipit, käivät papit,Went the bachelors, went the priests,

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9Tuli viimen Nurmi Tuomas,Finally came Nurmi Thomas,

10Nappais neitosen rekehen,Snatched the maiden into his sleigh,

11Löi tuo osmalla oria:Struck the steed with the whip:

12Hepo juoksi, tie helisi,The horse ran, the road rang,

13Kangas kultanen kulisiThe golden cloth clinked,

14Tuota neittä vietäessä,As that maiden was taken away,

15Kultaa kul'ettaessa.While gold was being transported.

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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