Lintuset lipisemähän
In the SKVR edition: Kurkijoki. Heikel E 78. 80.
SKVR textEnglish
Kurkijoella panin muistoon seuraava säikäysluku, saunassa luettava:
1Lintuset lipisemähän,May the birds flutter away,
2Varpuset vapisemahan,May the sparrows quiver away,
3Tuhaitkohon tuulen tuhka,Let the wind's ashes be destroyed,
4Värisköhön Wäinämöinen!May Väinämöinen himself tremble!
5Silmät päähän seisomahan,Let eyes stand firm in the head,
6Korvat päähän kuulemahan,Let ears stay hearing in the head,
7Tälle lapselle hyvälle.For this good child here.
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.
- 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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-080927 · Read at SKS ↗
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