Recordings from the Estonian Folklore Archives 3

Anthology of Estonian Traditional Music

The Lying Groom

Kristjan Kiviloo Kuusalu (1962)

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Tule aga mulle, tuisurille,
sulaselle, suisurille,
pere- aga -pojale, peiarille!
Perepoig on perguline,
petab palju, peksab palju,
valestab, varastab palju.
Lubas aga tuua kolmed kingad,
ühed puised, teised luised,
kolmandad kivised kingad –
puised kingad pulmakingad,
luised kingad lustikingad,
kivised kirikukingad –
ei saand pahu paslijagi,
vallast vanu viisujagi.

Siin olid neiud neljadkümmed,
vierandi olid viiedkümmed,
kuku aga sa mu, kuuedkümmed.

Eks minu isa võind hunta süöta,
ema aga karu kasvatata,
enne kui süötsid mind mehesta,
kasvatelid mind kanasta.
Eide-ga kopsus mina kosusin,
Eide-ga maksus mina magasin,
sõin aga eide südamesuoni,
purin aga eide puusaluida,
närisin^e eide nänninahku.
Sie sai abi, kes ei aitnud,
sie sai turva, kes ei toitnud.

Come to me, a madcap fool,
a reckless servant boy,
a rogue of a farmer's son!
The farmer's son is a devil,
he cheats a lot and beats a lot,
lies and steals a lot.
He promised to bring me three pairs of shoes,
one pair were to be wooden, the second bone,
the third were to be stone shoes –
the wooden shoes were to be wedding shoes,
the bone shoes were to be shoes for making merry,
the stone shoes, church-going shoes –
I did not get even a pair of worn slippers
or old bast shoes from the parish.

Here were maidens, forty of them,
a quarter of them numbered fifty,
call out to me you sixty [maidens].

My father might have fed a wolf,
my mother might have raised a bear,
before he would have fed me to be a man,
raised me to be a cockerel.
I grew strong in my mother's lungs,
I slept in my mother's liver,
I ate the sinews of my mother's heart,
I bit on my mother's hip bone,
I chewed on the skin of my mother's tits.
Who did not help, was helped,
who did not feed, got safety.

RKM, Mgn. II 734 a < Harju raj., Loksa kn., Turbuneeme k. (Kuusalu khk.) – H. Tampere Kirjandusmuuseumi ekspeditsioonil 1962. a. < Kristjan Kiviloo, 68-a.
[LP V b 4; CD2-9]. Mirov, Rüütel, Tormis 1977, 114 (nr. 56).

Eesti rahvalaule ja pillilugusid.
Teaduslik antoloogia. Tekstid ja kommentaarid Herbert Tampere, Erna Tampere ja Ottilie Kõiva. Toimetanud Ingrid Rüütel. Tallinn, 1970.
[+ 5 LP-s: Firma “Meloodia” Tallinna Heliplaadistuudio]
Sound engineering and restoration Heino Pedusaar
Sound recordists Vaike Neeme, Tiiu Oja
Editor of recorded material Joann Juštšuk

Eesti rahvamuusika antoloogia.
Koostanud Herbert Tampere, Erna Tampere, Ottilie Kõiva. Helisalvestusi Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiivist 3. Tartu, 2003.
[3 CD-s and booklet]
Sound engineering and CD mastering Jaan Tamm
Editors Janika Oras (texts), Vaike Sarv (melodies), Ergo-Hart Västrik (translations)
English translation Harri Mürk
Transcription of music Vaike Sarv, Krista Sildoja
Music notation Edna Tuvi
Dialect consultations Ellen Niit, Andreas Kalkun
Commentaries and appendixes Janika Oras, Kadri Tamm, Liina Saarlo
Map AS Regio, Liina Saarlo
Photo design Indrek Tenno, Liina Saarlo
Design and lay-out Hele Hanson-Penu, AS Triip
Project co-ordinator Ergo-Hart Västrik

Eesti rahvamuusika antoloogia.
Online edition.
Editors Janika Oras, Kadi Sarv
English translation Kait Tamm (foreword to the online edition)
Selection of photographs to the online edition Liina Saarlo, photo design Andrus Kalkun
Project co-ordinator Risto Järv

The artwork of the online edition of the anthology is based on Christi Kütt’s tapestry “Wedding Guests” (2002).

The online edition was supported by Estonian Ministry of Education and Science (Project IUT22-4), Ministry of Culture (programme “Heliloomingu tellimine ja muusikaalased väljaanded”, Commissioning and publishing music) and Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Publisher
Estonian Literary Museum Scholarly Press, 2016
℗ Estonian Literary Museum, 2016
ISBN 978-9949-586-00-4
Web design Lorem Ipsum