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Liian Paha Sappi

Public domain audiobook

Liian Paha Sappi

by Aaro Hellaakoski

Finnish· 00:04:23· 6 chapters
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)

LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Version 1

    00:54
  2. Chapter 2

    Version 2

    00:41
  3. Chapter 3

    Version 3

    00:46
  4. Chapter 4

    Version 4

    00:37
  5. Chapter 5

    Version 5

    00:45
  6. Chapter 6

    Version 6

    00:40