Hey! My family is from Latvia and I have a collection of ceramic tiles that my great grandmother made, with Latvian text on some of them. I am looking to lay them in my home, and would love to know what they say before they are permanent!
Can anyone help translate these family heirlooms? (I know they are hard to read, but they are old, sorry!)
Thanks in advance!
by brisskett
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Tautiets, mani precēdams,
Sietā nesa ūdentiņu,
Kad aizgāju, tad nenesa
Ne ozola ķipītī.
Note: this is a literary adaptation of daina 23093-0 which had been recorded in dialectal form. Link: [https://dainuskapis.lv/daina/23093-0-Dziesmas-no-brutes-draudzes-panaksniekiem](https://dainuskapis.lv/daina/23093-0-Dziesmas-no-brutes-draudzes-panaksniekiem)
Second to last:
>Lakstīgala kroni pina
Manā rožu dārziņā.
Ne man miega, ne darbiņa,
>Lakstīgalu klausoties.
The nightingale weaves a crown
In my rose garden.
No sleep for me, no work either,
Listening to the nightingale.
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