Tule, surma, suota myöte
In the SKVR edition: Rautu, Mäkrä. Laiho, L. 1617. 35. Mari Kukkonen, 62 v.
SKVR textEnglish
Lapsille:
1Tule, surma, suota myöte,Come, Death, along the swamp,
2Tauti talvitietä myöte,Disease, along the winter road,
3Ota pois teä omena,Take away your apple,
4Tapa pois teä tarttinoama!Kill off your clinging one!
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-076994 · Read at SKS ↗
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