Harakka istu pirtin päällä
In the SKVR edition: ? Raussi I s. 13. 50-luv.
SKVR textEnglish
Kuin kirvellä talssivat pitkin puun vartta ja laulavat - tulee viisitoistakymmentä talssausta:
1Harakka istu pirtin päällä,Magpie, sit on the sauna's roof,
2hakkas pitkiä pirtin puita;chopped the sauna's long logs;
3niitä piti tuleman viisitoista kymmentä.those were to become fifteen tens [150];
4Hakkaan hakkaan viistoista;I chop, I chop fifteen;
5väki sanoo kuustoista,the folk say sixteen,
6minä sanon viistoista.I say fifteen.
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-079206 · Read at SKS ↗
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