Luontoni [English translation]

The gates of the North1 are in sight

The evil doors are showing

Many colours 2 of the sky3 glitter 4

In my night light from fire

From the fire the night raises above my head

From my head to the Island of my family 5

From under my family to under a pike 6

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From under one (of them) the lid of the sky7

From under two (of them) the song of the morn

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From third all of my family8

Golden mind, my little feather

And the wolf doesn't run for worry

Pale grey9 from the back of the lands

Looks with staring eyes

With sight of blue sky

Land of the land's brass bird

Roads of my golden cuckoo

The trees are already passing from above my head

Arching for my deer-tail

White-muzzle10 as my guardian

Jackfish11 as my eyes

As home for my hard life

Wolf-soul12 of my birth

Wolf-soul of my birth

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From under one (of them) the lid of the sky

From under two (of them) the song of the morn

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From third all of my family

Golden mind, my little feather

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From under one (of them) the lid of the sky

From under two (of them) the song of the morn

There is song under the wind

Draught from the rush of my blood

Above the silent waters

Rings only a dark song of wind

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From under one (of them) the lid of the sky

From under two (of them) the song of the morn

Three birch trees are (growing) there

Four white dead pine trees

From third all of my family

Golden mind, my little feather

My lands are falling behind

My trees are trees of the Death 13

Crops are turning yellow

The cottages staying dark

1. Pohjola is location in Baltic Finn mythology. In Kalevala it was usually place of evil and enemies of the heroes. In some occasions it is also source of all evil, cold and sicknesses or alternative name for the Finnish land of the death and root of all magic, Tuonela. 2. Kirjo/Kirjoa "multicoloured/to colour"3. Taivaankansi, "Lid of the Sky"4. Kiimottaa (old, poetic) to glitter, to shine 5. this could be translated either "island of my family" or "my family to an island". It could even be both at the same time 6. In finnish mythology the Northern Pike is symbol of magic. Väinämöinen, Finnish national hero made his magical instrument, kantele, from jawbone of a huge pike. 7. this could also translate into "conjure"8. this could also translate into "third owns my whole family" or "third belongs to my whole family"9. most likely refers to the colour of the wolf, or possibly the pike 10. old common reference to horse, sometimes deer11. a type of pike fish, also known as water wolf. 12. could also translate to "lost soul"13. Tuoni is Finnish goddess and Queen of the Underworld. The word tuoni is also used as poetic word for death.