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Sairastava neito

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

In English: The ailing maiden (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems116
Verses3,595
Collection places22
Collected1830s to 1910s
CollectorsVolmari Porkka · D. E. D. Europaeus · J. Fr. Ruotsalainen · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · A. D. Neovius · Jaako Länkelä · Elias Lönnrot · A. E. Ahlqvist · Oskar Groundström · Väinö Salminen

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The archive’s description

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

Ydinaihe: Neito sairastaa tautia, jonka alkuperä on tuntematon. Hän antaa ohjeita omaisille hautaamisesta, miten vietävä hautaan jne. Pohjois- ja Itä-Inkerissä mukautunut omaistenvertailukertauksen kaavaan: vasta sulhon ikkunan alla voi levätä rauhassa. - Lyyrisiä motiiveja usein joukossa, mm.: >Jos kuolisin kotihin/korven päähän, Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin. Eeppisiä kytkentöjä: Äidin kuolo, Viron orja ja isäntä.

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
1830s4
1840s12
1850s20
1860s3
1880s42
1890s17
1900s16
1910s2

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
Lintu vie viestin emolle5
Äidin kuolo5
Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin5
Älköön emo pitsilakkia pitäkö4
Kun kuolisin kotiin, en korpeen3
Varkaalle menijä2
Kivestä kirja2

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. Kun kuolisin kotiin, en korpeen (If only I'd die at home, not in the wilderness)
  2. Sijan tiedän, missä synnyin (I know the place where I was born)
  3. Sulhaset jäävät suruun, kun lähden (The suitors are left in sorrow when I leave)
  4. Löi kahta kämmentänsä (He Clapped His Two Hands)
  5. Kuolon sanomat (Death tidings)
  6. Isä neuvoo sairastellessaan tytärtä (Ailing father advises his daughter)
  7. Jouduin juottoon jumalan (I Arrived at God's Watering Place)
  8. Marjatiellä kadonnut tyttö (Girl Lost on the Berry Path)
  9. Virpoi otti saunan selkäänsä (The birch switch carried the bathhouse)
  10. Anteruksen runo (Anterus's Song)
  11. Kävin tietä terhollista (I Walked the Acorn Road)
  12. Sadan hevosen satulointi (Saddling a Hundred Horses)
  13. Kullasta saari (Island of gold)
  14. Älköön emo pitsilakkia pitäkö (Let the mother not wear a lace cap)
  15. Kolmea en unohda (Three things I won't forget)
  16. Ylösnousemusvirsi (The resurrection song)
  17. Millä sukuni syötän - surulla (How shall I feed my kin - with sorrow)
  18. Tuonelta kosinta (Wooing a bride from the underworld)
  19. Sure sure hyvä rouva (Grieve, grieve, good lady)
  20. Itkin ihanat kasvot (silmät) (I wept for the lovely face (eyes))

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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.