Tule tuutinen unonen
In the SKVR edition: Pyhäjärvi. Ahlqvist A 181. 54.
SKVR textEnglish
1Tule tuutinen unonen,Come, soothing little sleep,
2käy, unonen, kätkyehen,Go, little sleep, into the cradle,
3lapsen pienen peittoisihin,Into the small child's coverings,
4vakahaisen vaattehisin!Into the steadfast one's garments!
5Uni ulkoa kysyvi,Sleep from outside asked,
6läpi sammalen sanovi:Spoke through the moss:
7"Onkos lasta kätkyessä,"Is there a child in the cradle,
8pientä peittehen sisässä,The small one inside the cover,
9vakahaista vaattehissa,In steadfast garments,
10minun tupaan tullakseni,For me to enter my cottage,
11kätkyehen käyäkseni?"To approach the cradle?"
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.
- 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-077033 · Read at SKS ↗
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