Tii tii tikanpoika teki tielle nauriin
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: Tii tii, the young woodpecker grew a turnip by the road (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Lastenrunot (children's songs) › Viihdytyslaulut ja -lorut |
|---|---|
| Poems | 199 |
| Verses | 1,018 |
| Collection places | 109 |
| Collected | 1880s to 1930s |
| Collectors | Esko Aaltonen · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Aukusti Salo · Sulo Haltsonen · Ulla Mannonen · F. A. Heporauta · Toivo Kaukoranta · Samuli Paulaharju · Toini Kohvakka |
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The archive’s description
Written by the editors of the SKVR type index and quoted as it stands, in Finnish.
Tii tii tikanpoika, teki tielle nauriin. Tuli tuhma (tyhmä, köyhä) talonpoika, söi sen tikan nauriin. Tikka rupes itkemään, talonpoika nauramaan.
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.
- Asikkala (8)
- Hollola (8)
- Kirvu (6)
- Kemi (5)
- Uusikirkko Vpl. (5)
- Anjala (4)
- Hausjärvi (4)
- Mäntyharju (4)
- Saarijärvi (4)
- Viipuri mlk (4)
- Hattula (3)
- Hauho (3)
- Kangasniemi (3)
- Kivennapa (3)
- Koivisto (3)
- Kuorevesi (3)
- Kymi (3)
- Lemi (3)
- Loppi (3)
- Rautalampi (3)
- Rautu (3)
- Sippola (3)
- Alatornio (2)
- Elimäki (2)
- Eräjärvi (2)
- Hankasalmi (2)
- Heinävesi (2)
- Joutseno (2)
- Jämsä (2)
- Jääski (2)
- Kemijärvi (2)
- Kiuruvesi (2)
- Korpilahti (2)
- Kuopio (2)
- Kurkijoki (2)
- Kärkölä (2)
- Lammi (2)
- Lappee (2)
- Luumäki (2)
- Myrskylä (2)
- Mäntsälä (2)
- Porvoo mlk (2)
- Rovaniemi (2)
- Sumiainen (2)
- Vehkalahti (2)
- Viitasaari (2)
- Antrea (1)
- Artjärvi (1)
- Haapavesi (1)
- Hartola (1)
- Heinjoki (1)
- Hiitola (1)
- Hirvensalmi (1)
- Honkajoki (1)
- Hyvinkää (1)
- Iitti (1)
- Jaakkima (1)
- Janakkala (1)
- Jokioinen (1)
- Juuka (1)
…and 49 more places
- Juva (1)
- Jäppilä (1)
- Kaavi (1)
- Kaukola (1)
- Kittilä (1)
- Kortesjärvi (1)
- Koski Hl (1)
- Kotka (1)
- Laatokan Karjala (Raja-Karjala) (1)
- Lapinjärvi (1)
- Lehtimäki (1)
- Lempaala (1)
- Luhanka (1)
- Luopioinen (1)
- Längelmäki (1)
- Maaninka (1)
- Orimattila (1)
- Padasjoki (1)
- Paimio (1)
- Parikkala (1)
- Perho (1)
- Petäjävesi (1)
- Pieksämäki (1)
- Pielavesi (1)
- Piippola (1)
- Puumala (1)
- Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (1)
- Pyhäntä (1)
- Pälkjärvi (1)
- Pälkäne (1)
- Revonlahti (1)
- Ruovesi (1)
- Räisälä (1)
- Sahalahti (1)
- Salmi (1)
- Savitaipale (1)
- Sulkava (1)
- Taipalsaari (1)
- Tornio (1)
- Tuulos (1)
- Tuusula (1)
- Tyrvää (1)
- Valtimo (1)
- Vesanto (1)
- Vihanti (1)
- Virolahti (1)
- Virrat (1)
- Vuoksenranta (1)
- Yläne (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 |
| 1890s | 22 |
| 1900s | 17 |
| 1910s | 99 |
| 1920s | 19 |
| 1930s | 35 |
| year not recorded | 1 |
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.
- Tii, tii tikanpoika SKVR IX1 1970. — Asikkala
- Tii tii tikanpoika SKVR IX1 1978. — Hollola
- Tii tii, tikanpoika, SKVR XIII2 6284. — Kirvu
- Tii, tii, tikan poika, SKVR XII1 1948. — Kemi
- Tii_tii, tikan poika SKVR XIII2 6274. — Uusikirkko Vpl.
- Tii tii tikan poika SKVR XIV 1416. — Anjala
- Tii tii tikanpoika, SKVR IX1 1954. — Hausjärvi
- Tii-tii, tikan poika SKVR VI1 1870. — Mäntyharju
- Tii tii tikanpoika SKVR IX2 227. — Saarijärvi
- Tii tii, tikan poika, SKVR XIII2 6293. — Viipuri mlk
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.
| Type | Poems in common |
|---|---|
| Tiiri liiri linnun poika, missä linnulla pesä | 4 |
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.
- Tikkasilla (Ladder game)
- Tiiri liiri linnun poika, missä linnulla pesä (Tiiri liiri, bird's chick — where is the bird's nest)
- Pimpula, pampula, paimenpoika (Pimpula, pampula, shepherd boy (refrain))
- Tuolt tullee tuhma Jussi - petti minut (There comes naughty Jussi — he betrayed me)
- Suuta söi suppii (Toothless One Ate)
- Nauriisilla (Playing turnips (children's game))
- Aa aa Anttia (Lullaby for little Antti)
- Tikka/likka/kissa tanssi (Woodpecker Dance)
- Nyt on meillä lysti leikki (Now We Have a Merry Game)
- Jussi (Jus, Jukka) (Jussi (Johnny) and name variants)
- Minkä vanha antoi, sen antoi kun Jumala (What the elder gave, he gave like God)
- Voi pahaa paimenpoikaa (Oh, the wicked shepherd boy)
- Kalevanpojan kosto (Kaleva's son's vengeance)
- Sakkulainen sai jäniksen (The Sakkula man caught a hare)
- Ysikin, tosikin - sinikin, punikin (Ysikin, tosikin – sinikin, punikin (refrain: blue one, red one))
- Kalervo ja Untamo (Kalervo and Untamo)
- Olli
- Tuli surma tyttärille (Death came for the daughters)
- Peoleo (Peoleo (Refrain Song))ERAB type
- Revon valitus (The fox's lament)
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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.