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Linnunpyytäjän sanoja

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

In English: Bird catcher's charms (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Metsästysloitsut
Poems109
Verses959
Collection places62
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Heikki Meriläinen · Samuli Paulaharju · A. I. Arwidsson · Väinö Salminen · Elias Lönnrot · Fr. A. Saxbäck · Sofia Snellman · A. E. Ahlqvist · Wasilei Potschtareff

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The archive’s description

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

Linnunpyytäjän sanoissa yhdistellään metsästysloitsujen tyypillisiä kliseitä ja aihelmia: metsän ja saaliseläinten haltioiden (tässä lintujen emuun) puhutteluja ja tervehtimisiä, uhrisanoja, metsästäjän varauksia jne.

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 2 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s2
1800s1
1810s5
1820s1
1830s2
1840s4
1850s3
1860s2
1880s50
1890s13
1900s10
1910s6
1920s2
1930s8

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
Metsästäjän varautuminen kateita vastaan8
Pyydys varataan2
Aukaisen sanaisen arkun2
Pyydys suojataan tuhoeläimiltä2

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. Jäniksen metsästys (Hare hunting)
  2. Lipeätä keittäessä (Lye-boiling charm)
  3. Ansalla pyytäjän sanoja (Trapper's Snare Charm)
  4. Metsälle lähtiessä (Setting out to hunt)
  5. Ketun metsästys (Fox Hunting)
  6. Metsästysonnen hankkiminen (Obtaining hunting luck)
  7. Kateen sanat (Envy incantation)
  8. Tervanpoltto (Tar burning)
  9. Kuohittava eläin suojellaan kateelta (Protecting the Animal Being Castrated from the Evil Eye)
  10. Kalastajan varautuminen kateita vastaan (Fisherman's Protection Against the Evil Eye)
  11. Lemmennostoloitsut (Love-raising incantations)
  12. Kalastusuhreja (Fishing Offerings)
  13. Metsänhaltialle (To the forest spirit)
  14. Karjan suojeleminen ja päästäminen kateista (Protecting cattle from the evil eye)
  15. Peuran metsästys (Deer Hunting)
  16. Luteita vastaan (Against bedbugs)
  17. Tein mie tielle tetrin ansan (I set a grouse trap on the road)
  18. Taudin alkuperän tiedustelu (Inquiring the origin of disease)
  19. Karhun metsästys (Bear hunting)
  20. Kuolleet on oravikoirat, metsämiehet vanhenneet (The squirrel-dogs are dead, the huntsmen grown old)

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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.