Läksin piennä paimeneen
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: I went as a young shepherd (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Kertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka |
|---|---|
| Poems | 133 |
| Verses | 3,055 |
| Collection places | 51 |
| Collected | 1760s to 1930s |
| Collectors | A. D. Neovius · H. A. Reinholm · Kaarle Krohn · A. E. Ahlqvist · D. E. D. Europaeus · K. A. Gottlund · Fanny M. Pajula · Elias Lönnrot · A. A. Borenius · Fr. A. Saxbäck |
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The archive’s description
Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.
Vaihtelee eri runoihin johdattavasta aloituskliseestä kiinteämpään aihelmaketjuun: Läksin piennä paimeneen, Kolme torvea, soitin suolla mennessäni, seppä seisahtui pajassa, saaren synty. Aloitusaihelmana esim. runoissa Hevonen varastetaan oluenjuojalta, Varas vie koristeet, Hanhi kadonnut, >Sudet söivät neitopaimenen lehmät, Myyty neito, Nuorena sotaan viety veli.
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.
- Lempaala (15)
- Sakkola (12)
- Suomussalmi (11)
- Toksova (9)
- Ilomantsi (6)
- Juva (6)
- Parikkala (5)
- Uusikirkko Vpl. (5)
- Vuole (5)
- Etelä-Karjala (3)
- Kuolemajärvi (3)
- Mäntyharju (3)
- Rautu (3)
- Räisälä (3)
- Kurkijoki (2)
- Metsäpirtti (2)
- Miikkulainen (2)
- Pielisjärvi (2)
- Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (2)
- Savitaipale (2)
- Suistamo (2)
- Antrea (1)
- Etelä-Savo (1)
- Heinjoki (1)
- Hiitola (1)
- Hyrynsalmi (1)
- Kanneljärvi (1)
- Kerimäki (1)
- Keski-Inkeri (1)
- Kiihtelysvaara (1)
- Kiuruvesi (1)
- Kuhmo (1)
- Kuopio (1)
- Lemi (1)
- Liperi (1)
- Piippola (1)
- Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (1)
- Porajärvi (1)
- Rantasalmi (1)
- Ristiina (1)
- Rovaniemi (1)
- Rääpyvä (1)
- Savonranta (1)
- Sotkamo (1)
- Suojärvi (1)
- Tyrö (1)
- Utajärvi (1)
- Valkjärvi (1)
- Varpaisjärvi (1)
- Virtasalmi (1)
- Vuokkiniemi (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1760s | 1 |
| 1810s | 5 |
| 1820s | 5 |
| 1830s | 3 |
| 1840s | 23 |
| 1850s | 21 |
| 1860s | 1 |
| 1870s | 4 |
| 1880s | 21 |
| 1890s | 25 |
| 1900s | 6 |
| 1910s | 11 |
| 1920s | 3 |
| 1930s | 4 |
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.
- Kävin piennä paimenessa SKVR V1 73. — Lempaala
- Mänin piennä paimenee, SKVR XIII1 153. — Sakkola
- Läksinkö piennä paimeneen, SKVR XII1 167. — Suomussalmi
- Käin mie piennä paimenessa SKVR V1 91. — Toksova
- Läksin piennä paimenehen, SKVR VII1 930. — Ilomantsi
- Meni mine piene paimenen, SKVR VI1 167. — Juva
- Olin orjana Virossa, SKVR XIII1 79. — Parikkala
- Kävin mä piennä paimenessa, SKVR XIII1 444. — Uusikirkko Vpl.
- Käin mie piennä paimenessa, SKVR V1 273. — Vuole
- Läksin pien̄ä paimenen, SKVR XIII1 1199. — Etelä-Karjala
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.
- Luikku lehmän luusta (Flute from a Cow's Bone)
- Soitan suolla mennessäni (Playing While Crossing the Bog)
- Kirkkoon kukaksi (Turned into a flower at church)
- Kävin pilven piirtä myöten (Walking along the cloud's edge)
- Emo, tee parempi paita, menen paimeneen (Mother, make a better shirt, I'm off to herd)
- Tappoit lehmän, taitoit sarven (You killed the cow, you broke its horn)
- Läksin suolle sotkuilleni, kolkutin kodan ovea (I set out to the bog on my errands, knocked at the hut's door)
- Kyntäjä ja pedot (The Plowman and the Wild Beasts)
- Ei täyvy tätä tytärtä (This Daughter Won't Do)
- Kullasta saari (Island of gold)
- Kun mokoman saisin, sylissäni syöttelisin (If I had such a one, I'd feed it in my lap)
- Hevonen varastetaan oluenjuojalta (Horse stolen from the beer-drinker)
- Lehmä teki valkean vasikan (The cow bore a white calf)
- Torajoelle riitelemään (To Torajoki to Quarrel)
- Mitä sie sika minusta (What do you want from me, pig?)
- Pistin pillit säkkiin, soitin suolla (I put my pipes in the sack, played in the marsh)
- Kalevanpojan kosto (Kaleva's son's vengeance)
- Konnusta kosinta (Wooing a bride from Konnu)
- Olin orjana Virossa (I was a serf in Estonia)
- Kullervon sotaanlähtö (Kullervo's Departure to War)
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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.