Eihä se oo meijä neito
In the SKVR edition: Metsäpirtti, Saaroinen. Haltsonen, S. 1319. 34. Kaapren Susanna (Repo, o.s. Ahtiainen), 64 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Häissä.
1Eihä se oo meijä neito,She is not our maiden,
2Se sellanen ko meijä neito,She is not like our maiden,
3Se ossaa heinää lyyvväShe knows how to cut hay,
4Sekä ossaa niittää.And knows how to reap.
5Ei sitä tuotu meijä neitooShe wasn’t brought as our bride
6Riihtä lämmittämmää,To warm the drying barn,
7Se vuo tuotii liita etteeShe was brought to the storehouse front
8Kohvii hämmentämmää.To stir the coffee.
9Apen paita ja anopin,Father-in-law’s shirt and mother-in-law’s,
10Ne ne pittää sotkii,They must be dirtied,
11Kälyn lapset ko on lattial,When sister-in-law’s children are on the floor,
12Niitä ei piä potkii.They must not be kicked.
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-075841 · Read at SKS ↗
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