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Aa aa, akana

Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus

In English: Aa aa, chaff (lullaby) (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems153
Verses644
Collection places87
Collected1880s to 1930s
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Ulla Mannonen · Samuli Paulaharju · Sulo Haltsonen · Lauri Laiho · Johannes Suomalainen · Kirvun Tietävälän nuorisoseuran arkisto · A. O. Väisänen · Olavi Pennanen · Toini Kohvakka

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.

Aa aa akana, lapsi makaa kotona, isän/äidin selän takana. Perusidea on riimitellä akanaan sopivia jatkosäkeitä, mikset nuku pakana, tallin lukon takana jne.

Paikoin (VI, XIII, XIV) kehitellään ajatusta, että (kastettu) lapsi on turvassa kolmen lukon takana, jottei pakana tai piru vie pois. Etelä-Karjalassa (XIII) suosittu jatko on myös Pannaan lapset lakanaan, viijään Viipurin torille, myyvään ryssän pojille / mustalais-Matille / mykkä Matti juopporatti, haisoo niinku hapan tatti. Vrt. V3:822, jossa samainen Viron Matti on löytänyt tiensä häävirteen. Kahdesti jatketaan pojan naima-ajatuksella: nai naisen naapurista, Viipurista (XIII2*).

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

…and 27 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1880s5
1890s5
1900s12
1910s63
1920s13
1930s55

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Tuuti, tuuti, tuomenkukka, eipä tiiä emo rukka2
Älä sijaas pissaa2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Aa lullaa möllipäätä (Rock-a-bye the blockhead)
  2. Aa vissaa tuuti (Lullaby (aa vissaa))
  3. Aa aa aholla (Aa Aa on the Meadow)
  4. Aa vissaa heijakka
  5. Kalle (Kallu)
  6. Älä tule pakkanen tupaan (Don't enter the house, Frost)
  7. Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — the cat comes to meet us)
  8. Emännän kolme kieltä (Mistress's Three Tongues)
  9. Kissa kuoli kiireellä ajalla (The cat died in the busy season)
  10. Sulho juomari (The drunken groom)
  11. Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan (Rock the child to Tuonela)
  12. Missä Mari makaa (Where does Mari lie?)
  13. Voi voi sentään kuinka monta kertaa (Oh, how many times still)
  14. Heinän pilaantumista vastaan (Charm against hay spoiling)
  15. Kirjo katos karjastani (Kirjo the cow gone from my herd)
  16. Suopo ammoi sukassa (Long Ago in the Stocking)
  17. Heija, houva, Hermikkiä (Heija, houva (refrain), Hermikki the cow)
  18. Jo on joulut jossakussa (Christmas is already upon us)
  19. Joulun tulo (The coming of Christmas)
  20. Aa aa akkani kuoli - saisin toisen (Aa aa, my wife died — I could get another)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the SKVR type index of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS); the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.