Aa aa, akana
In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko, Lahdenperä. Paulaharju 191. 03. Rosiina Savolainen, 10 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Tuutilaulu.
1Aa aa, akana,Oh ah, chaff,
2lapsi makaa kotonathe child lies at home,
3isän selän takana,behind the father's back,
4ettei pääse pakana.so the evil one cannot escape.
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-076564 · Read at SKS ↗
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