Oljamissa käynti

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

In English: The young wife's visit home (oljamit) (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

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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.

• Narvusi (36)
• Soikkola (29)
• Lempaala (22)
• Vuole (17)
• Rautu (10)
• Suistamo (10)
• Suojärvi (10)
• Toksova (9)
• Impilahti (7)
• Metsäpirtti (7)
• Sakkola (7)
• Kaprio (6)
• Ilomantsi (5)
• Keltto (5)
• Kupanitsa (5)
• Venjoki (5)
• Korpiselkä (3)
• Käkisalmi (3)
• Liissilä (3)
• Markkova (3)
• Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (3)
• Soanlahti (3)
• Tyrö (3)
• Uusikirkko Vpl. (3)
• Jaakkima (2)
• Kattila (2)
• Kurkijoki (2)
• Miikkulainen (2)
• Moloskovitsa (2)
• Serepetta (2)
• Eno (1)
• Etelä-Karjala (1)
• Hiitola (1)
• Ilmajoki (1)
• Kitee (1)
• Liperi (1)
• Räisälä (1)
• Rääpyvä (1)
• Sortavala (1)
• Spankkova (1)
• Tulemajärvi (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.

• Kuin mie voisin vuuen olla, SKVR III1 145. — Narvusi
• Olin orja vellolleni, SKVR III1 180. — Soikkola
• Sotkin koito kostolii, SKVR V1 720. — Lempaala
• Sotkin koito kostojain, SKVR V1 730. — Vuole
• Sotkin koito kostolii, SKVR XIII1 919. — Rautu
• Savu saarella palavi. SKVR VII1 807. — Suistamo
• Viikon vuotin veikkojani, SKVR VII2 1016. — Suojärvi
• Läksin kouluhun kotonta, SKVR V1 712. — Toksova
• Viikon vuotin, kavvan katsoin SKVR VII2 997. — Impilahti
• Sotkin koiton kostolin, SKVR XIII1 914. — 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. Mene päivä männikölle (Day goes to the pine grove)
2. Käärmeruoka (Snake food)
3. Tytärten hukuttaja (Daughter drowner)
4. Luulin riihen riskavaksi - riski rintaluuni (I thought the threshing barn was cracking — my breastbone)
5. Tehtiin kiroten kengät (Shoes made with curses)
6. Ei minua muut tunne kotiin tullessani (None recognize me when I come home)
7. Tütar ei saa tööst palka (Daughter gets no wages for work)ERAB type
8. Anopin susilla syötän (I feed my mother-in-law to wolves)
9. Minun toitti tuomen kukka (The Bird Cherry Blossom Lured Me)
10. Muilla päivät murkinassa (Others Feast All Day)
11. Emäntä paha kotona (The evil mistress at home)
12. Tukastani tuulen tunnen, pahan ilman paiastani (By my hair I know the wind, foul weather by my shirt)
13. Haukka hajotti emon lapset (The Hawk Scattered the Mother's Children)
14. Mitä tuosta, jos mie laulan - ei kyty kysele (What of it if I sing — the brother-in-law won't ask)
15. Kouluun kotoa (From Home to School)
16. Olin nokka nuorempana (I Was Sharp When Young)
17. En tunne anoppiani - appeani (I don't know my in-laws)
18. Isä kutsui kukkaseksi - appi haukkuu ahkioksi (Father called her a flower, father-in-law a sled)
19. Olin yksi, maksoin kaksi - nyt en mitään maksa (I was one, I cost two — now I'm worth nothing)
20. Miniän palkka - orjan palkka (Daughter-in-Law's Wages, Slave's Wages)

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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.