Kuldapyörätammi
Description of the lyrics:
There’s a giant flat top oak at the island. Each flat branch has an apple on it and each toe grows arctic raspberries. Each apple on a branch has a golden wheel and each golden wheel has a cuckoo. The cuckoo that sings has a wheel that spins and from their mouths run gold and copper to cups. But the oak grows too tall and blocks all light, it blocks both sun and the moon with its thick leaves. All search comes short: no one is able to chop down that tree, not even the youth of the next generation, that is able to ride the streams. But then a black man rises from the sea, a man better than the one who was dead, a man more beautiful than the one who was lost. A man with an iron mouth, an iron head, with iron mittens on his hands, an iron hat on his head, an iron belt behind his back and a steel axe on his waist. He is able to to take down the tree. It falls with its head in the North and roots in the South. He cuts the tree into small chips. When he is done the impressive sage Marketta comes, and collects the chips to her hem.
Suistaman virzilöi
This Karelian poem song is a part of a Suistaman virzilöi -series that I’ve compiled. See lyrics and brief descriptions in English from this booklet:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/...