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Poika miulle miniän tuopi

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

In English: Son brings me a daughter-in-law (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems150
Verses1,891
Collection places48
Collected1820s to 1930s
CollectorsLauri Laiho · Olavi Pennanen · Samuli Paulaharju · Eino Räikkönen · Ulla Mannonen · D. E. D. Europaeus · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Sulo Haltsonen · Fr. A. Saxbäck · Katri Kaukonen

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The archive’s description

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

Mie se tuutin tyttölasta, sen paremmin poikalasta, poika miulle minjän tuopi, (tuopa tukkani vetäjän), minjä saunan lämmittää, poika pellot pehmittää jne. Jatkuu yleensä sarkastisella kuvauksella miniän lämmittämästä kylystä: vesi on vielä kaivossa ja vastatkin varpuina varvikossa. Vatjalaisissa teksteissä ei miniä-aihetta, vaan pojan kalastuksen kuvausta (IVvat). VII*: kytkeytyy Äidin vaivojen palkinto -aihelmiin.

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
1820s1
1830s1
1840s11
1850s8
1860s1
1870s2
1880s5
1890s17
1900s15
1910s16
1920s5
1930s68

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 turvakseni9
Äidin vaivojen palkinto7
Tuuti lasta tuomariksi2
Lello poika liekkuu2
Syntymistään sureva2
Tule isä Tuuterista2

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. Anopin kylvettäminen (Bathing the mother-in-law)
  2. Älä itke äiti, tuon sinulle miniän (Don't cry, mother, I'll bring you a daughter-in-law)
  3. Minä vaan tuuvin piikojani (I just rock my servant girls)
  4. Kun tytär hyvä tulisi (If a good daughter would come)
  5. Tule isä Tuuterista (Come, father, from Tuuteri)
  6. Tuuti tyttöä tuomarille (Lull the Girl for the Judge)
  7. Äidin vaivojen palkinto (Reward for mother's toil)
  8. Tuo lehdosta leivän (Bring Bread from the Grove)
  9. Jo toimme tulen puhujan (We brought the fire healer)
  10. Lastunpoiminta (Gathering Wood Chips)
  11. Poika synty, polte synty; tyttö synty, tyhjä synty (A boy born, a fire born; a girl born, an emptiness born (birth incantation))
  12. Ennen metsä puita puuttuu (Before the Forest Runs Out of Trees)
  13. Tyhjä turva tyttäristä (Daughters Offer No Shelter)
  14. Pääsit kyntäjän kylelle (You reached the plowman's village)
  15. Voi sitä helvetin tuskaa (Oh, what hellish pain)
  16. Virpoi otti saunan selkäänsä (The birch switch carried the bathhouse)
  17. Otetaan meiltä orja, viedään vesihevonen (They take our slave, they lead off the water-horse)
  18. Lensi kokko halki korven (An eagle flew through the wilderness)
  19. Jo veli kaksin tulee (Brother Comes in Pairs)
  20. Äkäpussi ämmän lasta (The Old Crone's Hothead Child)

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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.