Meää yskä Ämmäleää
In the SKVR edition: Sakkola, Raaju. Neovius 577. 11/3 89. Liisa Vyötova.
SKVR textEnglish
Yskä luku.
1Meää yskä Ämmäleää,Our cough to the Old Woman,
2anna ämmii rykkii,Give the old women to cough,
3koukku-leukoin kokkii,With hook-jaws to craft,
4pannaa patsaa nenälle,Place a clod upon the nose,
5kiukuvan kilkutella!To jingle the furious one!
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-080756 · Read at SKS ↗
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