Vlad thanks i could use them right now it was -2 degrees
this am when i went out to clean off my car!
Give me back the and those 90 degree days
Jennifer --
Here's the charm to be recited to protect against your fingers freezing. Unfortunately, the more I thought about this, the more problems seemed to crop up. I thought about contacting Happybat to check both the Finnish words and the translation, but it sounds like you need help now!
My mom translated some of the words but there is no workable Finnish-English dictionary online to assist ... and another problem is that many of the vowels should have umlauts over them, which changes both the pronunciation, meaning, and spelling ... and I can't do umlauts here (umlauts are those two "dots" that some languages use over some vowels some of the time!) For example, the word for "don't" is
ala -- and both "a's" should have umlauts above them, meaning that the "ahh" sound is drawn out!
Oh, and finally, I don't know for sure if the charm works in English ... you may need to take a stab at trying it in Finnish -- just remember that the accent always falls on the
first syllable of every word ... (for example, the capital of Finland is HEL-sink-i,
not Hel-SINK-i, despite the way newscasters pronounce it.)
Pakkanen, puhirin poika,
Ala kylmaa kynsiain,
Ala kynsiain palele --
Palele ves pajuja,
Kylma koivun konkaleita!
[translation:
"Jack Frost, son of the wind,
Don't chill my fingers,
Don't freeze my fingertips --
Freeze the water willows,
Chill the birch chunks!"]
This is the sort of traditional charm that my grandmother remembered when she was growing up.