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Kalmalauvat Šelk​ä​h (Corpse​-​Boards on Your Back)

from Finno​-​Ugric by Sammale

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lyrics

Kalmalauvat Šelkäh
(Corpse-Boards on Your Back)

Mieš lähtöy pöpön ajoh-
kalmalauvat šelkäh;
mieš lähtöy kašen ajoh-
kalmalauvat šelkäh.
Naińi tulou vatšan kera-
kalmalauvat šelkäh.

A Karelian proverb/poem about the dangers of life.
In this proverb they're telling a man going for a bear
hunt to wear a "corpse-board" on his back. Another man
is going farming using the "slash-and-burn" technique
and again he's reminded to wear a "corpse-board" on his
back. This proverb also adds a line about a woman becoming
pregnant and telling her, too, to wear corpse-board on her back.
A corpse-board refers to a plank of wood on top of which a
corpse would lay during funeral rituals.

Karelians are people from east-Finland and west-Russia.
The owner of Karelia has changed several times in history,
the latest big change being in 1946 when most of Karelia
was taken by Russia. Finland did, however, evacuate some
420 000 people from Karelia. Due to the extreme similarities
in language (the text above is almost entirely intelligible to any
Finn) and being spread all around the country the language
has almost entirely disappeared. On Russian side of Karelia,
only around 5.5% (around 26 000 people) of the population
are Karelians.

The name "Karelia" comes from the Karelian and Finnish word
"Karjala". The "-la" ending usually refers to a place while "karja"
means "livestock". However, an earlier use of "karja" has been referring
to a group of people, usually warriors. Therefore the name could mean
something like "the place where the warriors live".


Lyrics trad., recorded from Maura Marttinen by I. Marttinen in 1911
Source: The Great Bear, Lauri Honko, 1993.

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from Finno​-​Ugric, released November 24, 2023

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