The "Jäger March" is a Finnish military march composed by Jean Sibelius and written by jäger (say: "YAY-ger") Heikki Nurmio in 1917. It was first performed the next year by the Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki led by Olof Wallin.[1][2] A civil war began on the same day.[3]
Lyrics[]
Finnish original[]
Latin script | Cyrillic script |
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Syvä iskumme on, viha voittamaton, |
Сӱвӓ искуммэ он, виха войттаматон, |
English translation[]
Deep is our blow, invincible our wrath,
We have no mercy, nor a homeland.
All our blessing at the tip of our sword,
our hearts knows not of pity.
Our war cry shall blare the land,
Which is severing its chains.
𝄆 'Tis impossible to rid our defiance
for the people of Finland are free. 𝄇
When the rest of the nation and land hung their heads,
we Jaegers still believed.
There was a night in our chest, a thousand sorrows,
but only one thought proud and holy:
We shall exact revenge on Kullervo,
And pass gratefully the fates of the war to come.
𝄆 A new tale shall now be in Finland born
it grows, it bolts, it triumphs. 𝄇
O'er Tavastia, Karelia, the strand of Dvina and the land,
there's only one powerful Finland.
Its ideal shan't be forced out from the Nordic sky.
Its lion flag is carried
by the strong arms of the Jaegers,
𝄆 o'er the roar of gory battlefields,
to the rising shore of Finland. 𝄇[5]
References[]
- ↑ The war and the fifth symphony 1915-1919. Finnish Club of Helsinki.
- ↑ Sibelius (2007). Barnett, Andrew. Yale University Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0300111590.
- ↑ Jägers. Mannerheim.fi.
- ↑ Jääkärinmarssi, sanat Heikki Nurmio (1917). Keuruu.
- ↑ Jääkärimarssi (English translation)