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Päivän päästö

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

In English: Release of the sun (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems124
Verses5,286
Collection places23
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsVolmari Porkka · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Jaako Länkelä · D. E. D. Europaeus · A. A. Borenius · Christfrid Ganander · Oskar Groundström · Hj. Basilier · J. Fr. Ruotsalainen · A. E. Ahlqvist

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The archive’s description

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

Elettiin ennen meillä -pikkurunosta on tullut Päivän päästön yleinen johdanto erityisesti Länsi-Inkerissä.

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.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s5
1810s1
1840s7
1850s20
1860s4
1870s6
1880s47
1890s18
1900s11
1910s4
1930s1

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
Maailmansyntyruno7
Kanteleen soitto5
Laivaretki4
Ihmehevonen4
Päivän kera kilpaa4
Elettiin ennen meillä4
Kanteleen synty3
Taivaan taonta3
Iso tammi3
Laula, laula, kieli keito2
Meren ajoa odottavat2
Sadan hevosen satulointi2

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. Lapsenetsintävirsi (Child-Seeking Song)
  2. Elettiin ennen meillä (There was life here once)
  3. Silta ja kirkko (Bridge and Church)
  4. Tapanin virsi (St. Stephen's Day Song)
  5. Saunanhakuvirsi (Sauna Fetching Song)
  6. Hiiden sepän kahlinta (Binding of Hiisi's blacksmith)
  7. Iro-neito (Iro the maiden)
  8. Käin ulkona usein uutta kuuta katsomassa (I Often Went Out to Watch the New Moon)
  9. Sammon ryöstö (Theft of the Sampo)
  10. Täss on tykky tyttölöitä (There are plenty of girls here)
  11. Hauen vatsasta poika (Boy from the pike's belly)
  12. Marjavirsi (Berry song)
  13. Hämeen ihmeet (Wonders of Häme)
  14. Iso tammi (The great oak)
  15. Kiusasin kivelle uida (I Urged Swimming onto the Rock)
  16. Ylösnousemusvirsi (The resurrection song)
  17. Kanto meressä (Stump in the sea)
  18. Mereen silta yksiöisistä vesoista (Bridge to the sea from solitary saplings)
  19. Taikinan kohotus (Dough-Rising Charm)
  20. Jumala on pesemättä puhtukainen (God is pure without washing)

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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.