Päänpesu porolla ja lipeällä
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: Washing the head with ash and lye (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Kertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka |
|---|---|
| Poems | 120 |
| Verses | 5,254 |
| Collection places | 27 |
| Collected | 1830s to 1920s |
| Collectors | Volmari Porkka · D. E. D. Europaeus · Iivo Härkönen · Jaako Länkelä · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Kaarle Krohn · J. Fr. Ruotsalainen · Törneroos ja Tallqvist · Fr. A. Saxbäck · O. Relander |
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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.
- Soikkola (19)
- Suojärvi (16)
- Korpiselkä (11)
- Narvusi (9)
- Serepetta (8)
- Tyrö (7)
- Kaprio (6)
- Moloskovitsa (5)
- Suistamo (5)
- Lempaala (4)
- Ilomantsi (3)
- Keltto (3)
- Vuole (3)
- Hietamäki (2)
- Kitee (2)
- Koprina (2)
- Liissilä (2)
- Markkova (2)
- Repola (2)
- Soanlahti (2)
- Järvisaari (1)
- Kupanitsa (1)
- Pistojärvi (1)
- Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (1)
- Säämäjärvi (1)
- Uusikirkko Vpl. (1)
- Venjoki (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1830s | 1 |
| 1840s | 12 |
| 1850s | 20 |
| 1860s | 2 |
| 1870s | 1 |
| 1880s | 39 |
| 1890s | 14 |
| 1900s | 25 |
| 1910s | 3 |
| 1920s | 2 |
| year not recorded | 1 |
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.
- Vähä meitä tyttölöitä, SKVR III1 218. — Soikkola
- Oli meitä nel'l'ä neittä, SKVR VII4 loitsut 2707. — Suojärvi
- Helena hyvä emäntä, SKVR VII1 521. — Korpiselkä
- Varraa on varis jalolla, SKVR III1 675. — Narvusi
- Katrina tyttö, aino tyttö, SKVR IV1 1350. — Serepetta
- Katarina kotikanainen SKVR IV1 545. — Tyrö
- Katrina kotikanainen SKVR IV1 580. — Kaprio
- Katrina koti-kanainen, SKVR IV1 952. — Moloskovitsa
- Lähin heinän niitäntöihin, SKVR VII1 777. — Suistamo
- Täss' on meitä neljä neittä, SKVR V2 1188. — Lempaala
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.
- Monta on muoria minulla - en tiedä ketä kumarran (Many old women, don't know whom to bow to)
- Taivaanvalojen kosinta (The heavenly bodies come wooing)
- Hiiden hirven hiihdäntä (Pursuit of Hiisi's Elk)
- Hekon runo (Heko's poem)
- Kehoitus laulamaan (Invitation to sing)
- Muut piti piluhihoja (Others Wore Slit Sleeves)
- Iivana Kojosenpoika
- Sadan hevosen satulointi (Saddling a Hundred Horses)
- Kuku minun käköseni (Cuckoo, My Little Cuckoo)
- Tuuterin tuhmat miehet (The Foolish Men of Tuuteri)
- Miehentappajaneito (The man-killing maiden)
- Kultapyörätammi (Golden wheel oak)
- Anteruksen runo (Anterus's Song)
- Parempi on omalla maalla ropehesta vettä juoda (Better to Drink Muddy Water on One's Own Land)
- Isä, veli tuo kengät (Father, brother, bring shoes)
- Neidon linna (The maiden's castle)
- Kenen neito, kenen morsian (Whose maiden, whose bride?)
- Menen metsähän kesällä (I Go to the Forest in Summer)
- Kullervoinen mies kuningas (The Kullervo man-king)
- Hirvi ohrassa (Elk in the Barley)
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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.