I am glad that I somehow accidently clicked on to this from another Finnish video. I am no stranger to Varttina, but haven't heard this one before. The fact that I only know like 25 words in Finnish, only makes the lyrics to be wonderfully mysterious to me. (I am from USA.) I do have a koira & a musta kissa...I luv them both. P.S. I could tell that this is old Varttina. Oi Dai is beautiful too.
My comment "Peace brothers ..." was meant as a joke but I got curious and started researching. The band Värttinä sings in Karelian dialect/language. The Finish part of Karelia is Orthodox while the rest of Finland is (mainly) Protestant. The Karelian language (in general) has many Russian loanwords. As there was an influence of religion and language from Russian culture I'm sure there was an music influence (or exchange), too.
