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Sutta vastaan

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

In English: Against the wolf (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underLoitsut (incantations) › Kotieläintalous
Poems178
Verses1,425
Collection places109
Collected1700s to 1930s
CollectorsS. Pirilä · L. Kaukamaa · Heikki Meriläinen · Väinö Salminen · K. A. Gottlund · Kerttu Luukkonen · Emilia Äijälä · H. Äijälä · P. A. Paldani · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori

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The archive’s description

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

Laidunmaille metsään laskettavaa karjaa suojeltiin metsän pedoilta erilaisilla varausmenoilla sekä loitsusanoilla, joissa sutta karkotetaan, suden kulkusuuntaa muutetaan ja suuta tukitaan. Tyypillisiä ovat erilaiset suden ja / tai metsän haltiain sekä karjan suojeluspyhimysten puhuttelut. Koska petojen nimitykset ja haltiat vaihtelevat alueittain, kannattaa ryhmää tarkastella rinnan karhua vastaan luettujen loitsujen kanssa.

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 49 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1700s1
1800s2
1810s1
1830s4
1840s2
1850s12
1860s2
1870s3
1880s38
1890s43
1900s24
1910s14
1920s4
1930s25
year not recorded3

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
Karhua vastaan71
Jyrinpäivän ja Vapunpäivän huuto21
Suden synty9
Karjaa laitumelle laskettaessa3
Jyrin virsi2

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. Karhua vastaan (Against the bear)
  2. Haltiain lepyttäminen karjaa laitumelle laskiessa (Appeasing spirits when sending cattle to pasture)
  3. Karjaa laitumelle laskettaessa (Releasing cattle to pasture)
  4. Katso, Kiesus, karjajani (Watch over my herd, Jesus)
  5. Lampaan suojeleminen metsähiideltä (Protecting sheep from forest spirits)
  6. Jyrin virsi (Saint George's Song)
  7. Maanhaltialta karjan menestystä (Livestock Blessing from the Earth Spirit)
  8. Karhun synty (Origin of the Bear)
  9. Onnea uuteen navettaan (Good luck for the new cowshed)
  10. Karhun nostattaminen toisen karjaan (Sending a bear to another's herd)
  11. Karhun pidätys ja lumous (Bear Binding and Enchantment)
  12. Yöjalassa ollessa (On a night-courting visit (charms to silence dogs))
  13. Jyrinpäivän ja Vapunpäivän huuto (St. George's Day and May Day Shout)
  14. Karjan päästäminen metsänpeitosta (Freeing cattle from the forest's cover)
  15. Lampaat varataan metsän pedoilta (Protecting sheep from forest beasts)
  16. Hevonen varataan metsän pedoilta (Horse Protected from Forest Predators)
  17. Ostetun karjan menestyminen uudessa paikassa (Bought cattle thriving in a new place)
  18. Vasikan menestyminen (The Calf's Thriving)
  19. Kinkereillä (At the Parish Catechism Exam)
  20. Loomad ja mets (Animals and the Forest)ERAB typeFiled on the same poems: Loomad leinavad metsa

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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.