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Hiiren karkottaminen heinästä ja viljasta

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

In English: Driving the mouse from hay and grain (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Maanviljelysloitsut
Poems128
Verses453
Collection places65
Collected1700s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Samuli Paulaharju · Jenny Paulaharju · M. Nurmio · Heikki Meriläinen · Väinö Kaukonen · S. Korpela · Taavi Matilainen · Herman Brandt · A. R. Niemi

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The archive’s description

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

Hiirelle ripotellaan kiviä tms. ja kehotetaan tätä syömään syöttinsä, rikkomaan hampaansa, jättämään sadon rauhaan tai kuolemaan. Jyviä ja heinää suojellaan sekä aittaan pannessa, kuivatessa että kylväessä.

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 5 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1700s1
1780s1
1820s1
1880s50
1890s24
1900s8
1910s11
1920s11
1930s21

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
Perunoiden suojeleminen hiiriltä3
Hiiren synty2
Jäniksen karkottaminen2

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. Perunoiden suojeleminen hiiriltä (Protecting potatoes from mice)
  2. Pelto varataan tuhoeläimiltä (Protecting the field from pests)
  3. Lapsen maitohampaan lähtiessä (When the child loses a milk tooth)
  4. Etanan synty (Origin of the snail)
  5. Käärmeen sanat (Snake charm)
  6. Varsalle rautahampaan toivotus (Iron teeth wish for the foal)
  7. Hevosen synty (Origin of the horse)
  8. Käärmeen synty (Origin of the snake)
  9. Lapsen jalkakipu (Child's leg pain charm)
  10. Laulan meret mesiksi (I sing the seas into honey)
  11. Jäniksen metsästys (Hare hunting)
  12. Sulasele mehele (Married to a farmhand)ERAB type
  13. Hiirenpesän syömisestä tarttunut tauti (Disease caught from eating a mouse nest)
  14. Karhun tie (The bear's path)
  15. Koi (Gnawing-disease charm)
  16. Hukkunut veli syötiin kalana (The drowned brother eaten as fish)
  17. Jauhaja neito, miniä (The grinding maiden, the daughter-in-law)
  18. Linad liulaskjale! (Flax to the slider!)ERAB type
  19. Hyvän sulhasen toivotus (Wishing for a good bridegroom)
  20. Tiitta lähti kalaan (Tiitta Goes Fishing)

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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.