| Original Title | Dialect | Informant | Genre Form | Genre Content | ID | glossed | Audio |
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| anʲsʲəx joɒ̯ aŋkəʃk olsəɣ kujəsəɣ | pelym mansi (PM) | Ljalkin, Andrei Petrovich | prose (pro) | Tales (tal) | 1262 | glossed | – |
| Text Source | Editor | Collector |
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| Kannisto, Artturi - Liimola, Matti (1956): Wogulische Volksdichtung gesammelt und übersetzt von Artturi Kannisto, bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Matti Liimola. III. Band. Märchen. In: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 111. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 126-131. | Liimola, Matti; Jeblankov, Feodor Ljepifanovich | Kannisto & Liimola (KL) |
| English Translation | German Translation | Russian Translation | Hungarian Translation |
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| "There was an old man and an old woman" | – | – | – |
| by Riese, Timothy |
| Citation |
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| Kannisto & Liimola 1956: OUDB Pelym Mansi Corpus. Text ID 1262. Ed. by Eichinger, Viktória. http://www.oudb.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?cit=1262 (Accessed on 2025-10-31) |
| anʲsʲəx joɒ̯ aŋkəʃk olsəɣ kujəsəɣ (glossed version) |
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| There was an old man and an old woman. |
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| They have no daughter, they have no son. |
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| The old man began to chop firewood. |
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| The old man was chopping firewood. |
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| Suddenly, a bullfinch fell out of a chunk of firewood. |
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| He took this bullfinch and brought it into the hut to his wife. |
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| The old woman began to feed the bullfinch. |
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| The bullfinch suddenly turned into a human. |
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| A wife must be taken for the bullfinch. |
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| A wife was taken for the bullfinch. |
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| A wedding feast is being held for the bullfinch. |
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| The bullfinch's clothing was put into the oven to burn. |
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| The bullfinch turned red and threw himself through the window. |
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| The bullfinch went off then. |
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| His wife began to go looking, to look for her bullfinch husband. |
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| She went and she went. |
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| She wandered and wandered, she came to a hut. |
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| When she went in, an old woman is sitting alone. |
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| Huh, she says, you came on your own, you entered on your own. |
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| So, she says, give me something to eat, something to drink, then ask. |
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| The old woman gave her something to eat and something to drink, she asks her, where are you off to? |
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| Where am I off to? |
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| I'm off to look for a man named Bullfinch. |
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| She says, haven't you seen him, auntie? Don't you know him? |
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| No, she says, I haven't see him, I don't know him. |
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| Maybe, she says, your uncle has seen him somewhere. |
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| Your uncle will come in the evening. I'll ask, maybe he has seen him. |
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| So, in the evening the old man came back, he was carrying an elk under his arm for himself to eat with his wife. |
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| Knife, cut up the elk. |
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| The knife cut up the elk. |
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| Knife, put the elk into the pot to cook. |
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| The knife put the elk into the pot to cook. |
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| The elk boiled and got done. |
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| He and his wife ate and they lay down (to sleep). |
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| They lay down, the wife speaks, she says, husband, have you not seen, do you not know a man called Bullfinch? |
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| The old man got angry, when he hit the old woman, she fell towards the door. |
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| The old man got up and left. |
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| The woman got up as well and went. |
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| She went and went, she came to a hut again. |
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| The old woman says to her, you came, you entered, you didn't ask. |
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| Auntie, give something to eat, something to drink, ask then, |
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| The woman speaks, have you not seen, have you not noticed, she says, a man named Bullfinch? |
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| Her aunt says, no, she says, I know nothing, I have seen nothing. |
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| Later, she says, your uncle will be coming, I'll ask him. |
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| In the evening the old man came. |
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| Again he was carrying an elk under his arm, he threw it onto the floor, he threw the knife. |
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| Cut, knife! |
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| The knife cut. |
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| Knife, put it into the pot to cook! |
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| The knife put it into the pot to cook. |
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| Their food got done, the old woman ladled it out, she and the old man ate and lay down (to sleep). |
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| The old woman says, husband, have you not noticed, do you not know a man called Bullfinch? |
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| The old man got angry, he struck the old woman, the old woman lay down. |
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| The next morning the old man got up, he went off again to his last wife. |
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| The woman got up as well and went. |
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| She went and went, she came to a hut again. |
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| She came to a hut, she went in. |
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| An old woman says, you didn't ask, you came inside on your own, you came on your own. |
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| Give me something to eat, ask then! |
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| The old woman gave her something to eat. |
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| Where, she says, are you off to? |
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| Auntie, she says, have you not noticed, do you not know a man called Bullfinch? |
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| No, niece, she says, I have noticed nothing, I know nothing, she says. |
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| In the evening your uncle will be coming, ask him (whether) he knows anything or not. |
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| In the evening the old man comes. |
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| Again he was carrying an elk under his arm. |
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| The elk gets thrown onto the floor, the knife gets thrown. |
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| Knife, cut! |
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| The knife cut. |
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| Knife, put it into the pot to cook. |
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| The knife put it into the pot to cook. |
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| The food got done. |
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| The old woman ladles the meat out. |
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| She ate with the old man, they lay down (to sleep). |
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| The old woman asks the old man, do you not know, have you not noticed a man called Bullfinch? |
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| He says, I often go to him, to the man called Bullfinch. |
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| How, she says, do you visit (him)? |
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| How, he says, do I visit (him)? |
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| I scrape the soles of my feet with a knife, scatter (it) underneath me, the watery marsh dries up and I walk across. |
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| The door to his hut, he says, I open with a hair from my beard. |
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| The old man fell asleep. |
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| It's time to scrape the soles of the old man's feet. |
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| The two of them pulled and pulled at a hair of his beard, they couldn't manage to tear one out. |
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| So, chop a hair of the beard off with an axe! |
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| His lip was cut in two. |
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| The old man woke up, how, he says, did my lip get cut in two? |
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| Husband, she says, you placed your axe yourself, it fell down and you cut your lip in two. |
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| Then the old man got up and left. |
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| The woman got up as well and went across the marsh. |
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| She scatters the footsole scrapings, it dries up and she walked across the marsh. |
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| She came to the place Bullfinch was living. |
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| She opened the door to the hut, inside the hut a crane chick is walking around. |
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| The woman asks, when will the man called Bullfinch be coming? |
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| The crane chick says, he'll be right here. |
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| The woman hid. |
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| The man called Bullfinch arrived, he grabbed his fiddle and sat down to play. |
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| Suddenly, a string of the fiddle snapped. |
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| And he began to play the dombra, a string of the dombra snapped. |
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| Oh, he says, how is it that the things seen by my wife are tearing? |
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| He sat down to play his harp, he started to play his harp, again a string snapped. |
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| He threw down his harp and jumped up to run. |
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| He jumped up to run and was grasped by his wife. |
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| The couple clasped one another, they went back to their own place, they went back to their mother and father. |