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Kilpalaulanta

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

In English: Song competition (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems301
Verses15,534
Collection places52
Collected1780s to 1920s
CollectorsD. E. D. Europaeus · A. A. Borenius · Volmari Porkka · Elias Lönnrot · Kaarle Krohn · Hj. Basilier · A. Genetz · Eino Kemppainen · J. Fr. Cajan · Iivo Härkönen

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The archive’s description

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

Inkerissä (III) Kilpalaulanta sisältää mereen silta yksiöisistä vesoista -mahdottomuusmotiivin sekä meren kyntäminen ja meren pohjan polttaminen -motiivin alueilla III, IV, V. Pohjoisessa Kilpalaulannan yleinen kliseeaihelma "suin lumehen, päin vitihin" liittyy Viron orja ja isäntä -runoon.

Väinämöisen ja Joukahaisen yhteenotto on aiheena myös seuraavissa: Väinämöinen veistää tulivenettä, Väinämöisen ja Jouhkavaisen kutsuminen (ks. näitä).

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
1780s7
1810s3
1820s5
1830s27
1840s52
1850s11
1860s3
1870s53
1880s64
1890s36
1900s25
1910s12
1920s2
year not recorded1

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
Taivaan taonta36
Ihmehevonen16
Väinämöisen ammunta14
Kanteleen soitto12
Sammon ryöstö12
Kehoitus laulamaan11
Kanteleen synty10
Maailmansyntyruno9
Sammon taonta8
Vipusen virsi8
Mereen silta yksiöisistä vesoista8
Istumme ilokivelle7

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. Väinämöisen ammunta (The shooting of Väinämöinen)
  2. Sammon ryöstö (Theft of the Sampo)
  3. Sammon taonta (Forging of the Sampo)
  4. Laivaretki (Ship voyage)
  5. Kanteleen soitto (Playing the kantele)
  6. Purren itku (The boat's lament)
  7. Ei jaksa hepo vetää (The horse cannot pull)
  8. Anni tuolta annettiin (Anni was given away)
  9. Veri tippui vempeleestä (Blood Dripped from the Staff)
  10. Kanto meressä (Stump in the sea)
  11. Kultapyörätammi (Golden wheel oak)
  12. Kanteleen synty (Birth of the kantele)
  13. Kynnin kymmenen vakoa (I Plowed Ten Furrows)
  14. Maailmansyntyruno (World creation poem)
  15. Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
  16. Iro-neito (Iro the maiden)
  17. Valjasti iso tulisen ruunan (Father harnessed the fiery gelding)
  18. Lemminkäisen virsi (Lemminkäinen's song)
  19. Vellamon neidon onginta (Angling for Vellamo's Maiden)
  20. Väinämöisen matka Pohjolaan (Väinämöinen's journey to Pohjola)

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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.