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Piu pau papinkello

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

In English: Ding dong church bell (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems449
Verses1,874
Collection places189
Collected1880s to 1930s
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Esko Aaltonen · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Vilho Saariluoma · Samuli Paulaharju · Olavi Pennanen · Toini Kohvakka · Toivo Vuorela · V. J. Kallio

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The archive’s description

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

Luetellaan erilaisten kellojen pauketta: papin kellot, piispan kellot, lukkarin lesken lehmän kellot, Kivijärven kirkonkellot, hämäläisen härjän kellot, vallesmannin varsan kellot jne. Monin paikoin (erityisesti VI, myös VII, IX, XI, XIII ja XIV) kirkonkelloilla on myös asiaa: Tuokaa tänne pieniä poikia, täällä on paljon muita; Tulkaa tänne mullan alle, täällä pysytte tallessa; Tulkaa tänne pienet lapset, mie paan teijät multaan jne. Etelä-Pohjanmaalla (XI, osin myös VIII) toivotellaan lisäksi: Kaikki lapset kuolkoon, Maijulle (tai muu nimi) marjat jääköön / Matti eloon jääköön! Yhdistyy paikoin Miu, mau, Martti kuoli -loruun, alkusäkeissä samantapaisia muotoja.

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 129 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1880s19
1890s29
1900s34
1910s213
1920s54
1930s100

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
Tuuti lasta Tuonelaan8
Miu, mau, Martti kuoli6
Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu3
Koska kotiin tullaan2
Aa lullaa lasta, muori, isä vastaan2

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. Muut kuuli kirkon kellon (Others Heard the Church Bell)
  2. Miu, mau, Martti kuoli (Miu, mau (meow), Martti (Martin) died)
  3. Eläimet hautaajina (Animals as Gravediggers)
  4. Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa (Pium paum (bang), the hare gallops in the forest)
  5. Pium paum pantiin papin häntä heilumaan (Pium paum, the priest's tail was set swinging)
  6. Kukas sitten laulelee (Who then will sing)
  7. Piu pau pampalaa (Piu pau pampalaa (nonsense refrain))
  8. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  9. Pium paum poutaa (Pium paum (fair weather charm))
  10. Piipun varren mittaista (The length of a pipe stem)
  11. Kissa naukui kirkon päällä (Cat Meowed on the Church Roof)
  12. Eläinten pidot (Animals' feast)
  13. Kirkosta tullaan, kivikylään mennään (From church we come, to the stone village we go)
  14. Lukkarin muori (The Sexton's Old Wife)
  15. Pium paum soitetaan, kun X kuolee (Pium paum, bells toll when someone dies (bell rhyme))
  16. Hevonen kadonnut veljeltä (Brother's lost horse)
  17. Pium paum Paukkalan vaari (Paukkala's Bang-Bang Grandfather)
  18. Ii, mii, Mikko kulta - akka kuoli? (Ii, mii, dear Mikko — did the old wife die?)
  19. Aa aa akkani kuoli - kuka näki, hautasi (Aa aa, my wife died — who saw it, buried her)
  20. Pimpula, pampula, paimenpoika (Pimpula, pampula, shepherd boy (refrain))

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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.