Aa aa akkani kuali
In the SKVR edition: Vihti. Enäjärvi-Haavio, E. 1. 32. Ida Vainio.
SKVR textEnglish
1Aa aa akkani kualiOh, oh, my wife has died
2Turuj jojen sillan alla;Under the bridge of Turku's rivers / Under the marketplace river's bridge;
3Ei ole varaa maahaam pannaI lack the means to lay [her] in my earth;
4Eikä sijaan toista tuara.Nor [means] to bring another in her stead.
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-086035 · Read at SKS ↗
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