Matin häitä vietettiin
In the SKVR edition: Valkjärvi. Ss. Reijonen 1. 32.
SKVR textEnglish
1Matin häitä vietettiin,Matti's wedding was celebrated,
2Mitä siel häissä keitettiin?What was cooked there at the wedding?
3Sirkan siivet, torakan koivetCricket's wings, cockroach's legs,
4ja peipposen peräpakarat.and the chaffinch's rear buttocks.
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-077475 · Read at SKS ↗
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