Mäne, yskä, yötä myöte
In the SKVR edition: Räisälä. Kivipelto. KRK 137. Räty, Tyyne 259. 35. Maria Karilainen, palv., 50 v., Räisälä, Kirkonkylä.
SKVR textEnglish
Lasta kylvetetään:
1Mäne, yskä, yötä myöte,Go, cough, along the night's path,
2anna ämmiin rykkii,give to the old hags your filth,
3koukkuselkiin kokkii,to the hunchbacks, let them gather it,
4partasuihen paukutella!to the bearded mouths, let it clatter!
5Mäne sinne, kunne käsken,Go there where I command,
6kust ei kuulu kuuna päänä,where the moon isn't heard as a head,
7selkene sinä ikänä,never onto a back,
8vaahtoon valkiaan,into the white foam,
9saveen siniseen,into the blue clay,
10suuren hauin hartioille!onto the great pike's shoulders!
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-084533 · Read at SKS ↗
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