Laivassa surmattu veli

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

In English: Brother killed on a ship (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.

Useimmissa teksteissä on varoitus omaisille: ei saa käyttää meren vettä, koska se on surmatun veljen verta.

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.

• Soikkola (35)
• Narvusi (29)
• Kaprio (17)
• Lempaala (9)
• Serepetta (8)
• Sakkola (6)
• Etelä-Karjala (4)
• Suistamo (4)
• Tyrö (4)
• Kattila (3)
• Metsäpirtti (3)
• Moloskovitsa (3)
• Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (3)
• Rautu (3)
• Hietamäki (2)
• Keltto (2)
• Kurkijoki (2)
• Vuole (2)
• Jaakkima (1)
• Järvisaari (1)
• Kerimäki (1)
• Korpiselkä (1)
• Markkova (1)
• Rautjärvi (1)
• Räisälä (1)
• Toksova (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.

• Velloini venoisen seppoi, SKVR III1 350. — Soikkola
• Yö vaa neito, päivä neito SKVR III1 697. — Narvusi
• Menin rannoille meroll, SKVR IV1 1439. — Kaprio
• Kysyin kirkon kipparilta, SKVR V1 405. — Lempaala
• Venäen on kuningas viekas, SKVR IV1 1358. — Serepetta
• Läks veikkoi Virroi SKVR XIII1 566. — Sakkola
• Elköö minun emoni SKVR XIII1 571. — Etelä-Karjala
• Selvällä meren selällä, SKVR VII1 235. — Suistamo
• Kiusasin kivellä uia, SKVR IV1 536. — Tyrö
• Näin mie laivon lainehtivan, SKVR III1 467. — Kattila

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. Menin meren rantuelle, näin laivuen tulevan (I went to the seashore and saw a ship coming)
2. Maie (Maie (the husband killer))
3. Suomeen pako (Flight to Finland)
4. Kiusasin kivelle uida (I Urged Swimming onto the Rock)
5. Älköön emo pitsilakkia pitäkö (Let the mother not wear a lace cap)
6. Maailmansyntyruno (World creation poem)
7. Sormin soutaminen (Rowing with Fingers)
8. Kaukamoisen virsi (Kaukamo's song)
9. Souda laiva Suomeen (Row the Ship to Finland)
10. Tule tehdyille teloille (Come to the Finished Frame)
11. Kyll on päiviä kesässä (Indeed There Are Days in Summer)
12. Löysin karjan kankahalta, panin paimenen papiksi (Found the herd on the heath, made the shepherd a priest)
13. Vene ja purje puhki kivisillä kengillä (Through with boat and sail on stone-soled shoes)
14. Laivaretki (Ship voyage)
15. Jo meille joulu joutu (Christmas has come to us)
16. Veneeseen pyrkivä neito (Maiden Seeking the Boat)
17. Mehiläinen viestinviejänä (The bee as messenger)
18. Veneenveisto (Boat building)
19. Oli meitä ennen paljon (There were many of us before)
20. Ihmemaa (Wonderland)

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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.