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Sämpsä Pellervoinen

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

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems103
Verses3,867
Collection places35
Collected1770s to 1910s
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Elias Lönnrot · D. E. D. Europaeus · A. A. Borenius · Hj. Basilier · K. A. Gottlund · A. E. Ahlqvist · R. Polén · Uuno Karttunen · Volmari Porkka

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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: Sämpsän herättely. Sämpsä (tai joku muu) lähtee kylvämään maita. - Pohjois- ja Raja-Karjalassa osana Puun synty -loitsua. Numeroviitteisiin ei ole liitetty Iilian virttä, jossa pyydetään sadetta pelloille, ei myöskään yksittäisiä, Sämpsään viittaavia nimiä muissa runoissa.

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
1770s1
1780s1
1810s4
1820s5
1830s8
1840s20
1850s1
1870s10
1880s34
1890s13
1900s3
1910s2
year not recorded1

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
Puun synty65
Puun sanat63
Pakkasen sanat11
Pistoksen synty6
Pistos6
Pakkasen synty5
Voiteen synty5
Tulen sanat3
Tulen synty3
Iilian virsi3
Lemminkäisen virsi2
Hiiden sepän kahlinta2

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. Veli meni metsään, puhui pukin sarveen (Brother went to the woods, blew the buck's horn)
  2. Puun synty (Origin of the Tree)
  3. Voiteen synty (Origin of ointment)
  4. Pakkasen synty (Origin of Frost)
  5. Puun sanat (Tree charm)
  6. Voiteen luku (Salve incantation)
  7. Vesi vanhin veljeksistä (Water, eldest of brothers)
  8. Tuonelassa käynti (Journey to Tuonela)
  9. Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
  10. Lemminkäisen surma (Death of Lemminkäinen)
  11. Herhiläisen tai mehiläisen synty (Origin of the hornet or bee)
  12. Vuoresta veden synty (Origin of Water from the Mountain)
  13. Käärmeen synty (Origin of the snake)
  14. Kipusanoja (Pain charms)
  15. Ampiaisen sanat (Wasp Charm)
  16. Hampun kuidun haava (Hemp Fiber Wound)
  17. Joko meidät halla hautoi (Has the Frost Already Brooded Over Us)
  18. Viklin eli solvakon sanat (Swollen-glands charm (vikli or solvakko))
  19. Suon koivu, kankaan petäjä (Birch of the bog, pine of the heath)
  20. Puun vihojen varalta (Against the tree's wrath)

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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.