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Mikä tuolla näkyy?

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

In English: What can be seen there? (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLastenrunot (children's songs) › Ketjurunot
Poems270
Verses6,447
Collection places98
Collected1810s to 1930s
CollectorsForsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Volmari Porkka · J. Fr. Ruotsalainen · D. E. D. Europaeus · Kaarle Krohn · Väinö Salminen · H. A. Reinholm · Esko Aaltonen · Elias Lönnrot · Fanny M. Pajula

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The archive’s description

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

Kysymys-vastaus -muotoinen ketjuaihelma, jossa kuvataan joko maa- tai järvi/meri -maisemaa Esim. Mikä tuolla näkyy?- Talo tuolla näkyy. Mikä talon takana? Tammi talon takana. Tammessa aitta. jne tai Mitkä nuo merellä uivat? - Sorsat. Mitä sorsan siiven alla? - Kätkyt? Mitä kätkyessä? jne. Esiintyy useimmiten jonkin kertovan aihelman yhteydessä, usein Neljän neidon runon, kultakangasta kutovan neidon (Kultalangan katkeaminen) johdantona. Jatkona usein aihelma veljestä/pojasta, jonka kirveestä singonneen lastun paikalle rakennetaan kirkko.

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 38 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1810s2
1820s2
1830s6
1840s22
1850s38
1860s5
1870s7
1880s44
1890s52
1900s46
1910s37
1920s3
1930s5
year not recorded1

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
Neljän neidon runo52
Kultalangan katkeaminen28
Oma ja vieras emo20
Kyynelten vierintä16
Kolme käkeä9
Pakeneva8
Rikoilla kuuntelija3
Kukon tappo3
Löysin kultaisen omenan - kukon tappo3
Emon pään karsiminen3
Kalervo ja Untamo3
Laivaretki3

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. Kultalangan katkeaminen (Breaking of the golden thread)
  2. Läksin suolle sotkuilleni, kolkutin kodan ovea (I set out to the bog on my errands, knocked at the hut's door)
  3. Nuorena sotaan viety veli (Brother taken to war young)
  4. Kyynelten vierintä (Rolling tears)
  5. Kuuttaret kutojina (Moon Maidens as Weavers)
  6. Kolme käkeä (Three Cuckoos)
  7. Hanhi kadonnut (The lost goose)
  8. Hiiri metsähän menevi (Mouse goes to the forest)
  9. Neljän neidon runo (Song of four maidens)
  10. Jalka kiveen (Foot into Stone)
  11. Kirkko tehdään, minne lastut lankeavat (The church rises where the chips fall)
  12. Uni näkyy tulevan (Sleep seems to be coming)
  13. Kullan kutsut (The darling's invitation)
  14. Löysin kultaisen omenan - kukon tappo (Found a Golden Apple — Killing the Rooster)
  15. Kukon tappo (Killing of the rooster)
  16. Turkin sattuneen sanat (Charm for a skin ailment)
  17. Emon pään karsiminen (Combing the mother's hair)
  18. Tupahokki ja Sauna-Heikki (Tupahokki and Sauna-Heikki)
  19. Panin kiuluni kivelle - kukko ja kana knoppasi (I set my bucket on a stone — rooster and hen knocked it)
  20. Isä kirjailee kirvesvartta, äiti kutoo, sisko kerii (Father carves the axe-haft, mother weaves, sister winds yarn)

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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.