Elä yskä yksinäistä
In the SKVR edition: Rautu. Ahlqvist 414. 54.
SKVR textEnglish
1Elä yskä yksinäistä,Do not exist, cough of loneliness,
2tauti aivan ainoaista,disease so utterly singular,
3anna ämmien rykiä,let the crones hack,
4koukkuleukojen kokea,let the hook-jawed ones suffer,
5anna kiljua kiukuallalet them shriek in fury,
6panna patsahan nenässä!thrust it into the statue's nose!
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-080752 · Read at SKS ↗
Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.