Miehentappajaneito

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

In English: The man-killing maiden (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.

Ydinaihe: henkilöiden esittely, soitolla nukuttaminen; Länsi- Inkerissä veitsien piilotus vuoteeseen (vrt. Maie); saranoiden voitelu vierteellä, sisääntulo, neidon kysymys, tulijan vastaus, käsky poistua, tappo, seurausten kuvaus. Dialogi (Antti ja Anni, Antti ja Kaisa). Länsi-Inkerissä päättyy usein neidon pakoon, kuten Maie-runo. Säkeitä muista runoista: Sulhonsa kylvettäjä, Kaukamoisen virsi, Kukkuu käkeä kaksi, toruu käkeä kaksi, Maie, Eläimet sanansaattajina, Iivana Kojosenpoika, Laivaretki, Annikaisen virsi, Likainen neito, Tuonelta kosinta.

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 (31)
• Lempaala (13)
• Suistamo (12)
• Tyrö (10)
• Ilomantsi (9)
• Vuole (8)
• Narvusi (7)
• Venjoki (5)
• Korpiselkä (3)
• Metsäpirtti (3)
• Moloskovitsa (3)
• Rautu (3)
• Soanlahti (3)
• Uusikirkko Vpl. (3)
• Hietamäki (2)
• Impilahti (2)
• Sakkola (2)
• Juva (1)
• Kiihtelysvaara (1)
• Koprina (1)
• Porajärvi (1)
• Toksova (1)
• Tuutari (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.

• Veitikke verevä poika, SKVR III1 211. — Soikkola
• Katrina emon kananen SKVR V1 665. — Lempaala
• Tuli Kirsti kiitettävä, SKVR VII1 209. — Suistamo
• Antrei utala poika, SKVR IV1 489. — Tyrö
• Marjatta, koria neito SKVR VII1 754. — Ilomantsi
• Helinä hyvä emäntä SKVR V1 600. — Vuole
• Hauon poika haikiainen, SKVR III1 69. — Narvusi
• Mänin Maijukka veelle, SKVR IV1 22. — Venjoki
• Marjatta, koria neiti SKVR VII1 735. — Korpiselkä
• Kati kauno immi neito, SKVR XIII1 835. — Metsäpirtti

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. Löi kahta kämmentänsä (He Clapped His Two Hands)
2. Maie (Maie (the husband killer))
3. Päätään pesemätön tyttö (The Girl Who Didn't Wash Her Hair)
4. Marketan runo (Marketta's song)
5. Konnusta kosinta (Wooing a bride from Konnu)
6. Tuntuu emotoin tyttö, poika (You can tell a motherless girl, a motherless boy)
7. Sadan hevosen satulointi (Saddling a Hundred Horses)
8. Taivaanvalojen kosinta (The heavenly bodies come wooing)
9. Torajoelle riitelemään (To Torajoki to Quarrel)
10. Katrina kotikananen (Katrina the little house hen)
11. Iivana Kojosenpoika
12. Oma ja vieras emo (Own mother and stepmother)
13. Emo antoi äänen (Mother gave the voice)
14. Anteruksen runo (Anterus's Song)
15. Päänpesu porolla ja lipeällä (Washing the head with ash and lye)
16. Mataleenan virsi (Magdalena's Song)
17. Ennen naidun naisen tappo (Murder of a Previously Married Woman)
18. Marketan tanssi (Marketta's Dance)
19. Hekon runo (Heko's poem)
20. Taivaanvaloilta kosinta (Courting by the heavenly lights)

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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.