If you listened to that wonderful first link in the National Geographic site of music from all over the world, here are , first the Finnish words, followed by a translation, thanks to my friend from Finland.
Suvetar hyvä emäntä
nouse harja katsomahan
viitimä emännän vilja
kun ei tuskihin tulisi
Manutar maan emäntä
nostele oras okinen
kannon karvanen ylennä
kun ei tuskihin tulisi
Syöttele metisin syömin
juottele metisin juomin
mesiheinin herkuttele
vihannalla mättähällä
siull on helkiät hopiat
siull on kullat kuulusammat
nouse jo neitonen
mustana mullasta
Akka mantereen alanen
vanhin luonnon tyttäristä
pane turve tunkomahan
maa väkevä vääntämähän
Akka mantereen alanen
vanhin luonnon tyttäristä
tuhansin neniä nosta
varsin vaivani näöstä
Suvetar, fine matron
Arise to see the seeds
Raise the matron's corn
So that we may be spared pain
Manutar, matron of the Earth
Lift up the shoots from the ground
New shoots from the stumps
So that we may be spared pain
Feed us with honey-hearts
Give us honey-drink
Delicious honey-grass
On a blossoming knoll
You have shining silver
You have glistening gold
Rise up, O maiden
Black from the soil
Underground crone
Most ancient of Nature's daughters
Make the peat shoot forth
And the ground turn over
Underground crone
Most ancient of Nature's daughters
Lift up a thousand seedlings
To reward my efforts.
4 comments:
So Beautiful! I will have to show America. She is always making up her own languages... this sounds a lot like her favorite, but it is real! Maybe she is preparing for a life in translating Finnish!
Here we do not celebrate the soumi rite of spring - but we do celebrate a mid-winter festival
http://pasty.com/heikki/
should take you to a link about the festival. Finns are the largest ethnic group in the copper country.
somewhere i have a fun poem about pannakakkus at the soumi resturant in houghton.
enjoyed the poem -
(we might have snow on friday! no wonder we don't celebrate the coming of spring - we never know when it is or was)
tom
Wonderful portrayal of spring. One could really get tempted to celebrate spring feeding on honey! Tom said it --- we never really know when spring has arrived.
Yes, isn't this a wonderful celebration song?
And Tom, thanks for that site. I just looked at it and never knew Finns formed such a large group in Michigan. The Finnish friend who sent this is actually from Finland.
I went to grad school in the midwest and lived in New England for 8 years, so remember snow in May at times. Yes, Spring doesn't arrive the way it does in more southernly climes.
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