Tii tii, tikanpoika
In the SKVR edition: Kirvu, Tietävälä. Suomalainen 123. 17.
SKVR textEnglish
1Tii tii, tikanpoika,Tii tii, woodpecker's son,
2tikan poika, akanpoika,woodpecker's son, chaff's son,
3nauriin tekijä naatikka,turnip-maker, little naatikka,
4uotettu jouhista saatikka.braided from horsehairs, that saatikka-thing.
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-077858 · Read at SKS ↗
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