Oppo teitä, oppo meitä
In the SKVR edition: Sakkola, Kirkonkylä. Neovius 53. 87. Simo Hatakka, kotoisin Metsäpirtistä. Synt. v. 1828.
SKVR textEnglish
Heää virsi.
1Oppo teitä, oppo meitä,Learn you, learn us,
2oppo poikia omialearn our own boys,
3opissani olleheini,those who stayed in my teachings,
4käynehein käskyssäin,who followed my orders,
5leikissä levännehhii.rested in play.
6Mi en ole opissa oltuI have not been in training,
7enkä leikissä levännyt,nor rested in play,
8muut pojat olliit opissa,other boys were in training,
9vaan en mie polonen poika,but I, a poor boy,
10seist' en seppiin pajassa,did not stand in the smith's forge,
11takojien tantereella,on the smiths' grounds,
12likint' en teräksen lientä,neared not the steel's brew,
13syönt en rauan suuruksii.tasted not iron's might.
14Ulos meitä uksi viepi,The door leads us out,
15poisi porstua vetääpithe porch pulls us away,
16tanhualle tantsimaane,to the floor to dance,
17lattiatta laulamaan,to sing on the boards.
18otsa ei orteen kolaha,My brow won't hit stubble,
19jalat ei sillan liitoksee,my feet miss the bridge's seams,
20peää ei käy pih'-puoli-lakkeen.my head avoids the low eaves.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-076147 · Read at SKS ↗
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