Nosta, etana, sarviais
In the SKVR edition: Koivisto. Ss. Hoikkala 23. 32.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nosta, etana, sarviais,Raise, snail, (your) horns,
2onks huomen pouta,Is tomorrow dry weather,
3vai valo ves saaje;or does the water gain brightness;
4jos et nosta,If you do not raise,
5mie siu tapan.I will kill you.
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-081875 · Read at SKS ↗
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