Palvelin talonpoikaa vuoteni täyteen
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: I served the farmer a full year (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Lastenrunot (children's songs) › Ketjurunot |
|---|---|
| Poems | 120 |
| Verses | 3,715 |
| Collection places | 74 |
| Collected | 1830s to 1930s |
| Collectors | Eemeli Vihervaara · Vilho Saariluoma · Esko Aaltonen · Halikon Toijalan kansakoulu · Aukusti Salo · V. J. Kallio · Eemil Saarimaa · J. Lindroos · Elias Lönnrot · Olavi Pennanen |
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The archive’s description
Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.
Luettelo rengin vuosipalkasta. Palkkana on erilaisia kotieläimiä sekä joskus myös talo, tytär/piika tai lapsi.
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.
- Muurla (4)
- Salo (4)
- Tammela (4)
- Tyrvää (4)
- Uskela (4)
- Alastaro (3)
- Asikkala (3)
- Askainen (3)
- Perniö (3)
- Pöytyä (3)
- Rautu (3)
- Somero (3)
- Halikko (2)
- Hauho (2)
- Hausjärvi (2)
- Inkoo (2)
- Laitila (2)
- Loppi (2)
- Moloskovitsa (2)
- Mouhijärvi (2)
- Pirkkala (2)
- Pusula (2)
- Rymättylä (2)
- Satakunta (2)
- Somerniemi (2)
- Tottijärvi (2)
- Tyrväntö (2)
- Urjala (2)
- Uusikirkko Vpl. (2)
- Etelä-Karjala (1)
- Hattula (1)
- Heinjoki (1)
- Jämsä (1)
- Karinainen (1)
- Kirvu (1)
- Kisko (1)
- Koivisto (1)
- Kokemäki (1)
- Koski Tl. (1)
- Kuhmalahti (1)
- Kupanitsa (1)
- Kuusjoki (1)
- Lappee (1)
- Lemi (1)
- Lieto (1)
- Loimaa (1)
- Maaria (1)
- Markkova (1)
- Merikarvia (1)
- Mäntsälä (1)
- Naantali (1)
- Nousiainen (1)
- Nurmijärvi (1)
- Oripää (1)
- Petäjävesi (1)
- Pori (1)
- Porvoo mlk (1)
- Pyhämaa (1)
- Sahalahti (1)
- Skuoritsa (1)
…and 14 more places
- Sulkava (1)
- Suomusjärvi (1)
- Säkkijärvi (1)
- Sääksmäki (1)
- Tampere (1)
- Teuva (1)
- Töysä (1)
- Vihti (1)
- Viipuri (1)
- Viipuri mlk (1)
- Virrat (1)
- Vuoksenranta (1)
- Vuole (1)
- Yläne (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1830s | 1 |
| 1840s | 2 |
| 1850s | 5 |
| 1880s | 10 |
| 1890s | 5 |
| 1900s | 17 |
| 1910s | 66 |
| 1920s | 4 |
| 1930s | 10 |
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.
- Palvelin minä talon poika SKVR VIII 3537. — Muurla
- Palvelin talonpoikaa vuoteni loppuun SKVR VIII 3535. — Salo
- Palvelin talompoikaa SKVR IX1 2276. — Tammela
- Kukko oli kurnappi, SKVR X1 1593. — Tyrvää
- Palvelim mä talompoikka vuoteni täytte, SKVR VIII 3531. — Uskela
- Palvelin minä talonpoikaa vuateni täyteen, SKVR X1 1589. — Alastaro
- "Palvelin talonpoikaa vuoteni täysi SKVR IX1 2290. — Asikkala
- Palvelim_mä talompoika vuaren ja päivän, SKVR VIII 3553. — Askainen
- Palvelin mä, palvelin mä SKVR VIII 3527. — Perniö
- Palvelin minä talonpoikaa vuaren, SKVR VIII 3546. — Pöytyä
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.
- Koira on hau hau (The dog goes woof woof)
- Kukko lauloi Kuurinmaalla (The Rooster Sang in Courland)
- Tuuti lasta nukkumaan, lapsenpiika torkkumaan (Rock the child to sleep, the nursemaid to doze)
- Laivan nimi on Lassi (The Ship's Name Is Lassi)
- Siellä talo, kussa kukko (There's the house where the rooster crows)
- Kasi kaksi, koira kolme (Cat two, dog three (counting rhyme))
- Kukko sanoi: kuukuuk (The rooster said cock-a-doodle-doo)Filed on the same poems: Kukon kinnas, kanan varvas
- Lapsen pikku kipuja ja loukkaantumia (Child's Minor Pains and Injuries)
- Palgamaksmine (Paying Wages)ERAB type
- Hämeen ihmeet (Wonders of Häme)
- Piu pau papinkello (Ding dong church bell)
- Tapaninpäivänä (On St. Stephen's Day)
- Pakeneva (The fleeing one)
- Karva kurkussa (Hair in the throat)
- Niu, nau, nikotinta! (Niu, nau (meow), the hiccuping!)
- Pappi, lukkari, talonpoika, kuppari (Priest, sexton, peasant, cupper)
- Haukkuu koira korvessakin (The dog barks even in the wilderness)
- Lampuri laulaa kullalleen (The shepherd sings to his sweetheart)
- Mikä nimi? - Nippatiira (What's Your Name? — Nippatiira)
- Hollandi sulane (The dairyman's farmhand)ERAB type
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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.