12 Jun
Värttinä
I think I really like Värttinä, which was suggested to me by
The Finnish language is quite enchanting. My favorite song so far is Synti (The Sin) which conjures up visions of the wyrd sisters from “Macbeth”
I also read that Värttinä is going to be doing a song or two in the new Lord of the Rings musical.
SYNTI / THE SIN
(Music: Antto Varilo Words: Mari Kaasinen, Trad)
They gossip about it in the village –
that I run from man to man, playing my games.
They’ve been saying in the village
that I’ve slept in one cottage after another, in every cottage.
Let those who say it
take the sin of their saying upon them.
Those who say it –
may they have gripes-in-the-guts.
They gossip in the village
that I’ve had a hundred children, a hundred children, they say.
They say they know that I’ve rocked
a thousand children to sleep.
May the gossipmongers have their reward:
may they have serpents, may they have snakes in their cradles.
May they have lizard-foetuses.
May death eat them, death eat them, death eat up the males.
May pestilence kill, pestilence kill, pestilence kill the men.
They gossip in the village
that I eat men up with my eyes, with my eyes, they say.
They gossip in the village
that the men shield me, that their hands hide me.
Let those who say it
take the sin of their saying upon them.
Those who say it –
may they have gripes-in-the-guts.
May the gossipmongers have their reward:
may they have serpents, may they have snakes in their cradles.
May they have lizard-foetuses.
May death eat them, death eat them, death eat up the males.
May pestilence kill, pestilence kill, pestilence kill the men.
May none but death desire them,
only hell stretch out a hand to them.
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