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Lypsäjän sanoja

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

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

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Kotieläintalous
Poems112
Verses681
Collection places66
Collected1700s to 1930s
CollectorsA. O. Väisänen · Sulo Haltsonen · Eero Väkiparta · Vilho Saariluoma · Ulla Mannonen · Iivana Marttini · Samuli Paulaharju · Lauri Laiho · Ahti Rytkönen · D. E. D. Europaeus

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The archive’s description

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

Lypsäjä heruttaa lehmäänsä. Tyypillisiä aineksia ovat lehmän puhuttelut, herutussanat ("Heru, heru lehmäseni"), maidon virtaamisen ja runsauden kuvaukset sekä maininnnat siitä, mihin maitoa tarvitaan, kenelle sitä jaetaan 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 6 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1700s1
1780s1
1840s4
1850s4
1880s11
1890s14
1900s5
1910s43
1920s3
1930s26

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.

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. Ehtynyt tai pilattu lehmä lypsäväksi (Charm for a dried-up or spoiled cow)
  2. Lypsylauluja (Milking songs)
  3. Maito-onnea poikineelle lehmälle (Milk Luck Charm for a New Cow)
  4. Maito-onnea laitumelle laskiessa (Milk charm when sending cattle to pasture)
  5. Kyllin syökää, kyllin juokaa (Eat your fill, drink your fill)
  6. Kolme hailia hatussa (Three Herrings in the Hat)
  7. Poikinut lehmä tai vasikka varataan (Consecrating the Calved Cow or Calf)
  8. Karjan suojeleminen ja päästäminen kateista (Protecting cattle from the evil eye)
  9. Karja syksyllä navettaan (Cattle into the cowshed in autumn)
  10. Lehmät kotiin laitumelta (Cows home from pasture)
  11. Karjaa laitumelle laskettaessa (Releasing cattle to pasture)
  12. Karjan suoloja tehtäessä (Making cattle charms)
  13. Ei tiedä nykyiset miehet milloin piiat tuorestuvat (Modern men don't know when maids come of age)
  14. Lüpsilaul (Milking Song)ERAB type
  15. Imettäjän ehtyminen (Nursing Mother's Milk Failing)
  16. Vasikoiden sukupuolen määräminen jouluna (Determining calf sex at Christmas)
  17. Kylväjän sanoja (Sower's Charm Words)
  18. Jouluaamun tervehdys karjalle (Christmas morning greeting to the cattle)
  19. Voionnen hankkiminen (Securing butter luck)
  20. Hiiri metsähän menevi (Mouse goes to the forest)

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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.