Lennä, lennä, leppätirtti
In the SKVR edition: Koivisto. Ss. Hoikkala 9. 32.
SKVR textEnglish
1Lennä, lennä, leppätirtti,Fly, fly, alder-bird,
2mis päi miu sulhasei,Where has my groom gone,
3onks se iivos,Is he alive,
4vai onks se aavos,Or is he a ghost,
5vai onks se Saksan salvames.Or in the German strait's grasp?
6Jos et lennä,If you do not fly,
7mie siu tapan.I will kill you.
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.
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-081889 · Read at SKS ↗
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