Kyynelten vierintä

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

In English: Rolling tears (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

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The archive’s description

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

Kyynelten vierintä -motiivia, erilaisina kehitelminä, tavataan useista epiikan yhteyksistä: Kanteleen soitto -runosta, Hirttäytynyt neito ja >Vastantaitto-runoista sekä eeppis-lyyrisistä ketjuista ja lasten viihdytyslauluista (Mikä tuolla näkyy?).

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.

• Narvusi (34)
• Soikkola (23)
• Suistamo (10)
• Uhtua (10)
• Vuokkiniemi (9)
• Kontokki (7)
• Repola (6)
• Ilomantsi (5)
• Kaprio (4)
• Nurmes (3)
• Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (3)
• Suojärvi (3)
• Impilahti (2)
• Kattila (2)
• Kemi (2)
• Kiimaisjärvi (2)
• Korpiselkä (2)
• Porajärvi (2)
• Serepetta (2)
• Tohmajärvi (2)
• Tyrö (2)
• Koprina (1)
• Liissilä (1)
• Metsäpirtti (1)
• Moloskovitsa (1)
• Saarijärvi (1)
• Spankkova (1)
• Säämäjärvi (1)
• Venjoki (1)

When it was collected

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.

• Läksin koista kulkemahan, SKVR III1 2. — Narvusi
• Oli linna, oli lippu, SKVR III1 563. — Soikkola
• Mitpä nuo merellä uivat? SKVR VII1 248. — Suistamo
• Anni tytti, Aino neiti SKVR I1 229. — Uhtua
• Oli vanha Väinämöinen, SKVR I1 95. — Vuokkiniemi
• Anni tytti, aino neiti SKVR I1 210. — Kontokki
• Ańńi tyttö, aino ńeido, SKVR II 40. — Repola
• Itki piiat, itki piltit, SKVR VII1 261. — Ilomantsi
• Kuka lie miun tehnyt, SKVR IV2 2148. — Kaprio
• Lato yhen laitapuolen SKVR VII1 640. — Nurmes

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.

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. Kullan kutsut (The darling's invitation)
2. Kouluun kotoa (From Home to School)
3. Mikä tuolla näkyy? (What can be seen there?)
4. Vellamon neidon onginta (Angling for Vellamo's Maiden)
5. Kolme käkeä (Three Cuckoos)
6. Ilmanimmen kosinta (Courtship at Ilmaniemi)
7. Kultalangan katkeaminen (Breaking of the golden thread)
8. Aittaan mäelle pukeutumaan (Dressing at the Hilltop Storehouse)
9. Sammon ryöstö (Theft of the Sampo)
10. Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
11. Vesille venehen mieli, naisen miehelään (The boat longs for water, the woman for wedlock)
12. Purren itku (The boat's lament)
13. Veneenveisto (Boat building)
14. Väinämöisen ammunta (The shooting of Väinämöinen)
15. Jalka kiveen (Foot into Stone)
16. Vipusen virsi (Song of Vipunen)
17. Kuuttaret kutojina (Moon Maidens as Weavers)
18. Kanteleen synty (Birth of the kantele)
19. Emon pään karsiminen (Combing the mother's hair)
20. Menin kukkana kujalle (I Went as a Flower to the Lane)

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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.