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Aa lullaa lasta, muori, isä vastaan

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

In English: Aa lullaa, rock the child — granny and father come to meet us (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems314
Verses1,720
Collection places118
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Vilho Saariluoma · Ilmari Kallio · Esko Aaltonen · Moision kansakoulu · Niilo Kallio · Tyyne Salminen · Iina Seppänen · Veikko Ruoppila · Halikon Toijalan kansakoulu

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The archive’s description

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

Jakaantuu kahteen pääversioon: Lännessä (VIII, X ja XI) alku useimmiten aa lullaa lasta, moron kommer fasta, jonka perään isän (papan, muorin) todetaan menneen Ruotsiin (Saksaan) tai ratsastavan sillalla vastaan, tuomisinaan lapselle silkkikenkiä ym. Muilla alueilla yleisempi on vastaan tuleva säkkiä kantava muori tai ukko, joka poimii nukutettavan säkkiinsä tai tuo tuliaisia lapselle.

Toisinaan runossa esiintyy kirstun päällä istuva (kehräävä) ja lasta kiikuttava muori tai piika, jolloin aihe tulee lähelle Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan -runoa. Tähän on poimittu ja tähdellä merkitty ne toisinnot, joissa ko. aihe esiintyy yksin, ilman Moron kommer fasta / muori tuli vastaan -aloitusta.

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 58 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s2
1880s10
1890s16
1900s50
1910s177
1920s24
1930s35

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
Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan17
Aa, tuuti lasta, vingerpori vastaa9
Muori on mustan mullan alla4
Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan3
Kehto sanoo tolkon3
Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla3
Piu pau papinkello2
Vaari meni Ruotsiin2

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 lasta, kissa vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — the cat comes to meet us)
  2. Aa, tuuti lasta, vingerpori vastaa (Aa, rock the child, Vingerpori facing (lullaby))
  3. Tule surma vastaan (Come, Death, to meet us)
  4. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  5. Isä kirjailee kirvesvartta, äiti kutoo, sisko kerii (Father carves the axe-haft, mother weaves, sister winds yarn)
  6. Heijaa lullaa Helsinkiin (Lullaby, rock to Helsinki)
  7. Veli meni metsään, puhui pukin sarveen (Brother went to the woods, blew the buck's horn)
  8. Älä tule pakkanen tupaan (Don't enter the house, Frost)
  9. Varis meni Ruotsiin (The crow went to Sweden)
  10. Koska kotiin tullaan (When Shall We Return Home)
  11. Aa aa Tuudituksia (Aa Aa Lullabies)
  12. Muori on mustan mullan alla (Old Woman Under the Black Earth)
  13. Heijaa heijaa Heikin lasta (Lullaby for Heikki's child)
  14. Nuku nuku mamman kulta (Sleep, Sleep, Mother's Darling)
  15. Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan (Rock the child to sleep, the nursemaid to doze)
  16. Aa, tuuti lasta, vielä suahaa vasta (Aa, lull the child — we'll yet get a bath whisk)
  17. Aa lullaa möllipäätä (Rock-a-bye the blockhead)
  18. Susilampaisilla (Playing wolf and sheep (children's game))
  19. Kun ei kukaan naikaan (When nobody takes a wife)
  20. Nuku nuku jotta kasvat suureks (Sleep, sleep, so you grow big)

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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.