| Original Title | Dialect | Informant | Genre Form | Genre Content | ID | glossed | Audio |
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| kum workʷeæ̯leæ̯ttə oːli | pelym mansi (PM) | Jeblankov, Feodor Ljepifanovich | prose (pro) | Mythological Texts (myt) | 1279 | glossed | – |
| Text Source | Editor | Collector |
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| Kannisto, Artturi - Liimola, Matti (1951): Wogulische Volksdichtung gesammelt und übersetzt von Artturi Kannisto, bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Matti Liimola. I. Band. Texte mythischen Inhalts. In: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 101. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 152-157. | Liimola, Matti | Kannisto & Liimola (KL) |
| English Translation | German Translation | Russian Translation | Hungarian Translation |
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| "A man is living in his forest hut" | – | – | – |
| by Riese, Timothy |
| Citation |
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| Kannisto & Liimola 1951: OUDB Pelym Mansi Corpus. Text ID 1279. Ed. by Eichinger, Viktória. http://www.oudb.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?cit=1279 (Accessed on 2025-10-31) |
| kum workʷeæ̯leæ̯ttə oːli (glossed version) |
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| A man is living in his forest hut, he hunts. |
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| He hunted for a short time, or he hunted for a long time. |
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| Suddenly he thinks: I'll go today to cut cones. |
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| So, he went to cut cones, then he cut cones. |
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| He made pine nuts, he sat down to crack pine nuts. |
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| He sat for a short time or he sat for a long time. |
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| Suddenly he looks, a forest spirit is coming to him. |
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| It came to him. |
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| It started to come in, his door poles were pushed in. |
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| Then he asked it: Uncle, where are you going? |
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| It says, nephew, I'm going to you. |
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| What are you doing? |
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| I'm cracking nuts, do you want to crack nuts, uncle? |
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| I want to. |
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| Let's make a bet on cracking nuts: (if) you finish first, then you eat me, (if) I finish first, then I eat you. |
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| Yes, nephew, it says, I've been thinking of making this bet for a long time. |
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| And so they make a bet. |
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| Then the man ran to the shore to a stone tongue of land. |
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| He scooped up stones, stones the same size as nuts, then he brought them. |
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| Uncle, crack, let's race. |
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| They race. |
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| When he bites, pieces of stone fly about all over the hut. |
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| He bites something again, something goes into his bosom. |
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| Suddenly he says, my nut basket is finished. |
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| I, nephew, still have many. |
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| Now, he says, let's not start fighting, do you want to eat, uncle? |
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| I do, nephew, he says. |
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| He hung a seven-handled pot over the fire, they filled it with meat. |
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| Then he ran and picked up a pair of pliers. |
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| He put the pliers into the fire, then the pliers got hot. |
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| He took the pliers along, he took a hammer along, he climbed up on top of the hut. |
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| He calls down, uncle, our hut is falling over. |
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| Look up! |
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| Then, when he looks up, he pinched his nose with the pliers. |
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| He started to hammer him with the hammer. |
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| Nephew, do a good deed, let me go, let me breathe a bit. |
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| Go! |
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| He went, he ripped out the door poles. |
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| If you have any brains, then put the door poles back. |
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| He turned back, he put the door poles back. |
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| Then he went off crying. |
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| It wasn't very long, he started to chase after him. |
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| Then he chased him. |
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| Then he looks, there's a green-yellow pit opening. |
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| He let himself down. |
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| He came down. |
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| He listens, he's still alive, he's ill. |
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| An old woman says, accursed one! |
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| If he came here, I would eat him here, I would drink him here. |
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| He hid. |
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| Suddenly the old woman cries out: go, boy, to get a divination. |
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| A boy came out. |
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| He goes. |
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| He lets one of his legs hang: my legs carry me. |
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| He lets his other leg hang: my legs carry me. |
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| He got there, to the miʃ-woman. |
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| You, he says, our father has started to die, give a divination. |
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| The miʃ-woman says, where he finds the trail of a human, he follows it, (if) he finds a god-created human, he takes (him) with the head. |
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| (If) it was his wish day, then he searched for his wish day, (if) it was his search day, he searched for his search day. |
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| Go back, she says, and say so. |
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| He ran back. |
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| He lets one of his legs hang; my legs carry me. |
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| He lets his other leg hang: my legs carry me. |
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| He came to his mother. |
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| The miʃ-woman, she says, how did she speak? |
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| He said, she says, where he finds the trail of a human, he follows it. (If) it was his wish day, then he searched for his wish day, (if) it was his search day, he searched for his search day. |
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| (If) he finds a god-created human, he takes (him) with the head. |
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| Go again, she says, have her give a divination again. |
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| Then the boy ran off again. |
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| He lets one of his legs hang; my legs carry me. |
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| He lets his other leg hang: my legs carry me. |
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| He came to the miʃ-woman. |
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| So, he says, our father will die soon, give a divination. |
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| She says, (when) he comes to the trail of a human, he follows it, (if) he finds a god-created human, he takes it with the head. |
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| (If) it was his wish day, then he searched for his wish day, (if) it was his search day, he searched for his search day. |
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| Soon, she says, he will die. |
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| Go, tell. |
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| The boy ran off. |
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| He lets one of his legs hang; my legs carry me. |
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| He lets his other leg hang: my legs carry me. |
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| He came home. |
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| The miʃ-woman, she says, what did she divine? |
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| What did she divine? |
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| She says, where he finds the trail of a human, he follows it. (If) it was his wish day, then he searched for his wish day. |
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| (If) he finds a god-created human, he takes it with the head; (if) it was his search day, he searched for his search day. |
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| Soon he will die. |
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| Well, he did die. |
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| His mother broke out in tears, she says: accursed one! |
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| If you were to come here from somewhere, I'd eat you here, I'd drink you. |
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| He calls out: where am I off to? Here I am! |
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| Soon the miserable forest spirit woman appeared with an iron bow. |
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| When he shoots her she falls with the arrow. |
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| The miserable boy comes out, he shoots him again, he falls with the arrow. |
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| After a while the daughter of the forest spirit comes out, when she shoots her, she falls with the arrow. |
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| He killed them all. |
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| Then he went to the miʃ-woman. |
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| He asks the miʃ-woman: Will you get married with me? |
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| If you don't marry me, then I'll kill you. |
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| The miʃ-woman replies, there is no one who can kill me. |
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| I, she says, know seven arts, I know seven tricks, I know seven feats. |
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| Instead of killing one another, let's get married. |
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| Well, they got married. |