Paista, päivä, paimenille

SKVR XIII3 7782·Uusikirkko Vpl.·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Uusikirkko, Makula. Europ. K 360. 47.

SKVR textEnglish

1Paista, päivä, paimenille,Shine, sun, for the shepherds,

2Älä kalan pyytäjille!Don't shine for fish-catchers!

3Paimen kuivan leivän syöpi,The shepherd eats dry bread,

4Kuivan leivän kuikuttavi,Makes one swallow dry bread,

5Kule päivä kuusikolle,Go, sun, to the spruce grove,

6Lennä leppien tasalle,Fly to the alders' level ground,

7Viere päivä vitsikkohon,Turn, sun, toward the thicket,

8Las'e paimenta kotihin.Let the shepherd go home.

9Paimenell paha emäntä,The shepherd has a bad mistress,

10Tuopa keitti kylmän kaalin,That one cooked cold cabbage,

11Kylmän kaalin, kylmän taarin,Cold cabbage, cold barley mush,

12Halli haisto, merkki maisto,Frost was smelled, a sign tasted,

13Merkki suurukset meteli,The sign: great clamorous lumps,

14Ranssi raiska rasvat lakki.The dance ruined the greasy hat.

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 editors’ signs inside the verses ([ ], ⌈ ⌉, *, [!], [?]) are left out, as in the poem reader; the letters they enclose are kept.
The edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.
The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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