Aa aa akana
In the SKVR edition: Rautu, Jousseenkylä. Pennanen, Olavi 319. 36. Maria Potushkin, o.s. Trofimof, 41 v., s. Metsäpirtin Vaskelassa.
SKVR textEnglish
1Aa aa akana,Ah ah, like chaff,
2lapsi pieni makajaathe little child lies sleeping,
3äitin etupuolella,at the mother's front side,
4isän selän takana.behind the father's back.
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-082708 · Read at SKS ↗
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