Kukas siun kohtais?
In the SKVR edition: Uudenkirkon as. Seppälä 62. 02. Liisa Havia. Torpan emäntä.
SKVR textEnglish
Lapsen kylvetyssanat.
1Kukas siun kohtais?Who would meet you?
2Mieskö, vaimoko,A man? A woman?
3piikako, poikako?A maiden? A youth?
4Jos oot miehistä,If you are of the men,
5mää miehiin;I go to the men;
6jos oot akoista,if you are of the women,
7mää akkoihin;I go to the women;
8jos oot poijist',if you are of the boys,
9niin mää poikiin;then I go to the boys;
10jos oot tyttölöist',if you are of the girls,
11niin mää tyttölöihin!then I go to the girls!
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-080696 · Read at SKS ↗
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