Tule surma suota myöten
In the SKVR edition: Jaakkima. Pakkanen 12. 33.
SKVR textEnglish
1Tule surma suota myöten,Come, Death, along the swamp,
2Lippaa meijän luokse,Glide swiftly to our side,
3Lyö kurikalla kummastai,Strike wondrously with the staff,
4Likkaa sekä lasta!The maiden and the child!
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-076972 · Read at SKS ↗
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