Rutsa

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

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The archive’s description

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

Vienassa Rutsa liittyy Kalevanpojan kostoon: I2 957, 959-962, 964-65, 972-974, 985-986; Aunuksessa II 246. Vienassa ja VII-alueella myös yhtynyt Lemminkäisen virteen, erityisesti Saaren neidot -jaksoon, samoin II 246. Rutsa-runon jakso, jossa dialogi äidin kanssa: vrt. Lemminkäisen virsi. Loppuepisodi, jossa lehmien ja härkien vienti sovituksena: V, VII, XIII.

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.

• Soikkola (29)
• Narvusi (27)
• Lempaala (18)
• Kaprio (17)
• Vuole (17)
• Sakkola (15)
• Serepetta (14)
• Uhtua (12)
• Jyskyjärvi (10)
• Kiimaisjärvi (10)
• Vuokkiniemi (10)
• Hietamäki (9)
• Venjoki (9)
• Metsäpirtti (8)
• Tyrö (7)
• Rautu (6)
• Ilomantsi (5)
• Kontokki (5)
• Moloskovitsa (5)
• Impilahti (4)
• Korpiselkä (4)
• Kupanitsa (4)
• Suojärvi (4)
• Koprina (3)
• Liissilä (3)
• Skuoritsa (3)
• Suistamo (3)
• Kattila (2)
• Soanlahti (2)
• Spankkova (2)
• Viena (2)
• Inkere (1)
• Joroinen (1)
• Kivennapa (1)
• Kuolemajärvi (1)
• Lavansaari (1)
• Liperi (1)
• Markkova (1)
• Paatene (1)
• Pielisjärvi (1)
• Pohjois-Karjala (1)
• Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (1)
• Repola (1)
• Räisälä (1)
• Toksova (1)
• Tuutari (1)
• Uusikirkko Vpl. (1)

When it was collected

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.

• Turo tuima poisikkainen SKVR III1 548. — Soikkola
• Venäen kuningas viekas, SKVR III1 68. — Narvusi
• Läksi viemän ver̄oa, SKVR V1 841. — Lempaala
• Poikoi tuima Tuurikkainen, SKVR IV1 578. — Kaprio
• Menin metsähän kesällä, SKVR V1 81. — Vuole
• Iivana Kojosen poika SKVR XIII1 406. — Sakkola
• Poiko tuimo Tuurikkain, SKVR IV1 1342. — Serepetta
• Anni tütti, ainuo neit'i SKVR I1 507. — Uhtua
• Poika tuhman Tuuliaisen, SKVR I2 954. — Jyskyjärvi
• Se oli liedo Lemmingäińe SKVR I2 958. — Kiimaisjärvi

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.

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. Torajoelle riitelemään (To Torajoki to Quarrel)
2. Veri tippui vempeleestä (Blood Dripped from the Staff)
3. Lintuparvi ja poika (A Flock of Birds and the Boy)
4. Löi kahta kämmentänsä (He Clapped His Two Hands)
5. Anteruksen runo (Anterus's Song)
6. Veroja Viroon (Tribute to Estonia)
7. Jos ois joet olunna (If there were rivers)
8. Tein mie tielle tetrin ansan (I set a grouse trap on the road)
9. Leskimies ja nuorimies kosijoina (Widower and Young Man as Suitors)
10. Varkaalle menijä (The girl who marries a thief)
11. Anni tuolta annettiin (Anni was given away)
12. Tuonelta kosinta (Wooing a bride from the underworld)
13. Löysin neitosen lehosta (I found a maiden in the grove)
14. Saaresta kosinta (Island Courtship)
15. Kolme torvea (Three Horns)
16. Taivaanvalojen kosinta (The heavenly bodies come wooing)
17. Morsiamen saapuessa sulhasen kotiin (The bride arrives at the groom's home)
18. Kaukamoisen virsi (Kaukamo's song)
19. Oluen uhkaus (The Ale's Threat)
20. Lehmä teki valkean vasikan (The cow bore a white calf)

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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.