Elli keitti velliä
In the SKVR edition: Säkkijärvi, Laiha. Alava 30. 90. Valpuri Hyypiä, 49 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Elli keitti velliä,Elli cooked the gruel,
2Velli kaatu kartanolle,The gruel spilled onto the farmstead,
3Ellin lapset larkkimaan,Elli's children began to play,
4Elli isse itkemään.Elli herself started weeping.
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-078484 · Read at SKS ↗
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