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Sään tiedustelu etanalta

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

In English: Asking the snail for weather (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Tiedusteluja linnuilta ja hyönteisiltä
Poems239
Verses533
Collection places130
Collected1880s to 1930s
CollectorsAukusti Salo · Niilo Kallio · V. J. Kallio · Moision kansakoulu · Halikon Toijalan kansakoulu · Laina Hänninen · S. Pennanen · Vilho Saariluoma · Toivo Kaukoranta · T. Pohjankanervo

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The archive’s description

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

(VII5 5149? etanan vihat)

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 70 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1880s6
1890s10
1900s15
1910s125
1920s11
1930s72

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. Tiedusteluja ja pyyntöjä leppäkertulle (Questions and requests to the ladybird)
  2. Käeltä poudan tiedustelu (Asking the cuckoo about fair weather)
  3. Poudan pyyntö kakkurilta (Requesting fair weather from the loon)
  4. Poudan sanat (Fair weather charm)
  5. Marjapaikan tiedustelu sisiliskolta (Asking the Lizard About Berry Spots)
  6. Etanaa vastaan (Charm against snails)
  7. Etana hyppäsi Eevan taskuun (A snail jumped into Eve's pocket)
  8. Aa hussala heijaa, tule huomenna meille (Aa hussala heijaa, come to us tomorrow (lullaby))
  9. Tule huomenna meille, saat sylttyä syödä (Come to us tomorrow, you'll eat brawn)
  10. Marjaan mennessä (Going berry-picking)
  11. Tulevan puolison näkeminen (Vision of the future spouse)
  12. Näytä päivä silmiäsi (Sun, Show Your Eyes)
  13. Metsänhaltijan lehmä näyttäytyy paimenille (Forest Spirit's Cow Appears to Shepherds)
  14. Metsänneitojen näkeminen (Seeing the forest maidens)
  15. Paise (Boil charm)
  16. Vaari istui kynnyksellä - katseli hallan tuulta (Grandfather on the threshold watching the frost wind)
  17. Puolison tiedustelu paarmalta (Divining one's future spouse from the horsefly)
  18. Sään tiedustelu sontiaiselta (Asking the dung beetle about the weather)
  19. Lepatriinu (Ladybird)ERAB type
  20. Luutaan lehosta (Broom from the Grove)

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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.