Mikä lapsella lienee
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: What ails the child (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Erilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut |
|---|---|
| Poems | 100 |
| Verses | 457 |
| Collection places | 61 |
| Collected | 1880s to 1930s |
| Collectors | Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Toini Kantele · Toini Kohvakka · Oskari Kuitunen · Anshelm Koskenjaakko · Kerttu Luukkonen · A. D. Neovius · Erkki Blomqvist · J. W. Kotikoski · A. Liimatainen |
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The archive’s description
Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.
Pis pis pikkusta lasta, mikä tolla lapsella lienee, liekkö ämmät (äiti, mamma, lampaat, kissat jne) säikytelleet illalla saunatiellä.
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.
- Kemi (13)
- Rovaniemi (10)
- Mäntyharju (4)
- Kangasniemi (3)
- Kemijärvi (3)
- Kontiolahti (3)
- Saarijärvi (3)
- Alatornio (2)
- Anjala (2)
- Enontekiö (2)
- Korpilahti (2)
- Pälkjärvi (2)
- Rautu (2)
- Sodankylä (2)
- Anttola (1)
- Asikkala (1)
- Iisalmi (1)
- Ilomantsi (1)
- Impilahti (1)
- Juuka (1)
- Juva (1)
- Jyväskylä mlk (1)
- Kaarina (1)
- Karstula (1)
- Karvia (1)
- Kihniö (1)
- Kiihtelysvaara (1)
- Kiuruvesi (1)
- Kuopio (1)
- Kuorevesi (1)
- Kurkijoki (1)
- Laihia (1)
- Lemi (1)
- Längelmäki (1)
- Myrskylä (1)
- Nilsiä (1)
- Nurmes (1)
- Perho (1)
- Peräpohjola (1)
- Petäjävesi (1)
- Puolanka (1)
- Puumala (1)
- Revonlahti (1)
- Ristiina (1)
- Rääkkylä (1)
- Sakkola (1)
- Soanlahti (1)
- Sotkamo (1)
- Suistamo (1)
- Sumiainen (1)
- Taipalsaari (1)
- Terijoki (1)
- Tervola (1)
- Turtola (1)
- Utajärvi (1)
- Uukuniemi (1)
- Uurainen (1)
- Valtimo (1)
- Viipuri mlk (1)
- Viitasaari (1)
…and 1 more places
- Vuoksenranta (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 |
| 1890s | 7 |
| 1900s | 9 |
| 1910s | 51 |
| 1920s | 16 |
| 1930s | 12 |
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.
- Piis, piis, pikkulasta! SKVR XII1 855. — Kemi
- Piis, piis, pikkusta lasta! SKVR XII1 701. — Rovaniemi
- Aa sun tussan, heijaa, SKVR VI1 1086. — Mäntyharju
- Ā, ā allil_lasta. SKVR VI1 1092. — Kangasniemi
- Pium, paum, pikku lasta! SKVR XII1 877. — Kemijärvi
- Aa, hussala heijaa, SKVR VII2 3705. — Kontiolahti
- Hussan pissan pientä lasta SKVR IX2 208. — Saarijärvi
- Piis, piis, pientä lasta! SKVR XII1 851. — Alatornio
- Aa hussama heijaa, SKVR XIV 548. — Anjala
- Paa, paa, passula heijaa! SKVR XII1 882. — Enontekiö
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.
| Type | Poems in common |
|---|---|
| Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla | 2 |
| Lintu tuopi liinapaidan | 2 |
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.
- Tuuti lasta kaakun eestä (Rock the child for a cake)
- Aa hussala heijaa, tule huomenna meille (Aa hussala heijaa, come to us tomorrow (lullaby))
- Nuku nuku jotta kasvat suureks (Sleep, sleep, so you grow big)
- Tule huomenna meille, saat sylttyä syödä (Come to us tomorrow, you'll eat brawn)
- Aa lullaa lasta, kissa vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — the cat comes to meet us)
- Aa aa allin lasta (Lullaby for the duck's child)
- Vehnäpulla (Wheat Bun)
- Revon valitus (The fox's lament)
- Nuku nuku nukkeroinen (Sleep, little sleeper)
- Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa (Pium paum (bang), the hare gallops in the forest)
- Aa lullaa lasta, muori, isä vastaan (Aa lullaa, rock the child — granny and father come to meet us)
- Ei tiedä emo kussa lapsi lauleleepi (Mother knows not where her child sings)
- Minä laulan lapsen kielen (I Sing in a Child's Tongue)
- Tule surma vastaan (Come, Death, to meet us)
- Tuonelan sillalla - ämmät tappeli (Old women fighting on Tuonela's bridge)
- Huis kissa lullun takaa (Shoo cat from the cradle)
- Paimenen lapsi (The Shepherd's Child)
- Piu pau papinkello (Ding dong church bell)
- Aa, tuuti lasta, vingerpori vastaa (Aa, rock the child, Vingerpori facing (lullaby))
- Tule surma suota myöten (Come, Death, along the bog)
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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.