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Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa

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

In English: Pium paum (bang), the hare gallops in the forest (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems160
Verses663
Collection places82
Collected1890s to 1930s
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Samuli Paulaharju · Toini Kohvakka · Sulo Haltsonen · Niittylahden kansanopisto · Kerttu Luukkonen · Oskari Kuitunen · E. J. Hyvärinen · Laina Hänninen · Jenny Paulaharju

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The archive’s description

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

Pium paum paukkaa, jänis metsässä laukkaa. Useimmiten jäniksellä mainitaan olevan jonkinlainen kello kaulassa, häntä tai pää puihin paukkaa, lapsen nuttu laitetaan naulaan jne.

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 22 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1890s3
1900s10
1910s59
1920s44
1930s44

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.

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. Piu pau papinkello (Ding dong church bell)
  2. Piu pau kehto heilahtaa (The cradle sways)
  3. Pium paum poutaa (Pium paum (fair weather charm))
  4. Piipun varren mittaista (The length of a pipe stem)
  5. Oletteko nähneet meidän pukkia (Have you seen our billy goat?)
  6. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  7. Pium paum soitetaan, kun X kuolee (Pium paum, bells toll when someone dies (bell rhyme))
  8. Pium paum Paukkalan vaari (Paukkala's Bang-Bang Grandfather)
  9. Pium paum pantiin papin häntä heilumaan (Pium paum, the priest's tail was set swinging)
  10. Piu pau pampalaa (Piu pau pampalaa (nonsense refrain))
  11. Haltiaisilla (With the guardian spirits)
  12. Miu, mau, Martti kuoli (Miu, mau (meow), Martti (Martin) died)
  13. Mikä lapsella lienee (What ails the child)
  14. Eläimet hautaajina (Animals as Gravediggers)
  15. Kettu juoksi revonkiulut kaulassa (Fox ran with buckets around its neck)
  16. Isäntä hirressä, emäntä orressa (Master on the gallows, mistress on the roost)
  17. Päivä puolessa, nälkä suolessa (Day half gone, hunger in the gut)
  18. Yks', kaks', polliissii (One, two, police (children's counting rhyme))
  19. Jänese õhkamine (The hare's sighing)ERAB type
  20. Minä menen metsään kettuja pettään (Going to the Forest to Trick Foxes)

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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.