Liian Paha Sappi
- Length
- 4 min
- Chapters
- 6
- Language
- Finnish
- First published
- 1916
The poem Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski, which tells the tale of a child struggling to keep his temper:
A TEMPER TOO BAD
How it burns my sisu when I have to be quiet If my will would be fulfilled the undertaker would get grain.
A little boy has gotten a temper too bad This sisu cannot be put out by even the most snowy Lapland.
This project is unusual in that most of the readers are non-Finnish speakers, and learned the poem phonically. (Summary by Juho Fröjd and Catharine Eastman)
Chapters
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens gutenberg.org), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).