Heru lehmä, heitä maito
In the SKVR edition: Kurkijoki, Riekkala. Lilius 458. 91. Eeva Puolakka, 75 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Heru lehmä, heitä maito,Milk, cow, let it flow,
2Anna maito, marjaseni!Give milk, my berry-dear!
3Minkä mie sinulle annan:What I shall give you:
4Heliäisen heinän pään,The bright hay's tip,
5Kultasen kukan nokasta.From the golden flower's beak.
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-081365 · Read at SKS ↗
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