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Karhun nostattaminen toisen karjaan

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

In English: Sending a bear to another's herd (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Kotieläintalous
Poems134
Verses768
Collection places73
Collected1700s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · L. Kaukamaa · Martti Mattila · T. Pohjankanervo · M. Nurmio · Heikki Meriläinen · Maija Juvas · K. J. Varvikko · S. Pirilä · Juho Jalkanen

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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 13 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1700s1
1780s2
1810s1
1850s6
1860s1
1870s3
1880s39
1890s18
1900s14
1910s11
1920s2
1930s36

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
Suden nostattaminen toisen karjaan9
Karhua vastaan3

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. Karhua vastaan (Against the bear)
  2. Karhun pidätys ja lumous (Bear Binding and Enchantment)
  3. Sutta vastaan (Against the wolf)
  4. Varastetun tavaran takaisin saaminen (Recovery of stolen goods)
  5. Kirkkomaan väki nostetaan (Raising the churchyard spirits)
  6. Karhun synty (Origin of the Bear)
  7. Onkijan lukuja (Angler's charms)
  8. Tulta käsiteltäessä (Fire handling charm)
  9. Viikon vuotin virkeätä - sain vihaisen (Waited a week for a lively one, got an angry one)
  10. Jäniksen metsästys (Hare hunting)
  11. Karhun metsästys (Bear hunting)
  12. Karjan päästäminen metsänpeitosta (Freeing cattle from the forest's cover)
  13. Luonnon nostatus (Raising one's guardian spirit (luonto))
  14. Kuoharin sanat (Gelder's charm)
  15. Oravan metsästys (Squirrel Hunting)
  16. Kinkereillä (At the Parish Catechism Exam)
  17. Pienenä vietiin vihille (Taken to wed while young)
  18. Suden nostattaminen toisen karjaan (Sending a wolf against another's herd)
  19. Uimaan mennessä (Going swimming)
  20. Ei sinua etäälle viedä (You are not taken far away)

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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.