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Kalevanpojan kosto

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

In English: Kaleva's son's vengeance (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems300
Verses18,238
Collection places60
Collected1760s to 1930s
CollectorsA. A. Borenius · Volmari Porkka · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · D. E. D. Europaeus · Elias Lönnrot · A. D. Neovius · A. Genetz · Kaarle Krohn · Jaako Länkelä · H. A. Reinholm

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The archive’s description

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

Ydinaihe: Väkivahva Kalevanpoika pannaan erilaisiin töihin (nuotan soutaminen, tarpominen, lapsen katsominen), epäonnistuu. Lähetetään paimeneen, kivi leivässä (kivinen kakku -aihelma, ks. paimenlaulut: >Kulu päivä, kulje päivä). Kalevanpoika ajaa pedot kartanolle, muuttaa karjan pedoiksi, tekee luikun Laukon luista. Pedot raatelevat tai tappavat emännän. Pohjoisessa harvinainen motiivi: rukoillaan Ukko ylijumalaa tappamaan Kalevanpoika. Kalevanpoika nostaa tuulen: I1 72. Kalevanpojan surma myös pohjoisessa, harvinainen.

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.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1760s1
1780s3
1820s2
1830s19
1840s31
1850s26
1860s5
1870s50
1880s63
1890s55
1900s23
1910s8
1920s4
1930s8
year not recorded2

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
Kalervo ja Untamo123
Saaren neidot17
Rutsa14
Kanto meressä13
Kanteleen synty12
Laivaretki10
Kynnin kymmenen vakoa10
Kanteleen soitto10
Purren itku9
Lemminkäisen virsi8
Paimenen kivinen kakku6
Veneenveisto5

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. Kanto meressä (Stump in the sea)
  2. Kullervon jaksoa (Kullervo Cycle)
  3. Kynnin kymmenen vakoa (I Plowed Ten Furrows)
  4. Luikku lehmän luusta (Flute from a Cow's Bone)
  5. Soitan suolla mennessäni (Playing While Crossing the Bog)
  6. Haukka hajotti emon lapset (The Hawk Scattered the Mother's Children)
  7. Emo, tee parempi paita, menen paimeneen (Mother, make a better shirt, I'm off to herd)
  8. Kasvatti emo kanoja (The Mother Raised Hens)
  9. Läksin piennä paimeneen (I went as a young shepherd)
  10. Kalervo ja Untamo (Kalervo and Untamo)
  11. Kolme torvea (Three Horns)
  12. Emo laittoi piennä paimeneen (Mother Sent Me to Herd as a Child)
  13. Helena hyvä emäntä (Helena, Good Mistress of the House)
  14. Päivä puolessa, nälkä suolessa (Day half gone, hunger in the gut)
  15. Lello poika liekkuu (The boy rocks (lullaby refrain))
  16. Kullervon sotaanlähtö (Kullervo's Departure to War)
  17. Lemminkäisen surma (Death of Lemminkäinen)
  18. Paimenen kivinen kakku (Shepherd's Stone Loaf)
  19. Paimenell on pitkä päivä (The shepherd's long day)
  20. Elettiin ennen meillä (There was life here once)

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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.