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Tiiri liiri linnun poika, missä linnulla pesä

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

In English: Tiiri liiri, bird's chick — where is the bird's nest (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kehtolaulut
Poems205
Verses1,166
Collection places99
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Moision kansakoulu · Vilho Saariluoma · Niilo Kallio · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Samuli Paulaharju · S. Pennanen · Eemil Saarimaa · Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Veikko Ruoppila

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The archive’s description

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

Tiirin liirin linnun poika (tii tii tiainen, vati kuti varpunen; kiuru liuru linnukkainen jne.), missä sulla pesä on? Heinikossa ruohikossa, kukkakuusen alla; Kuivan kuusen oksalla, lahokannon päässä jne.

Varsinais-Suomessa (VIII) vastauksena esiintyy yleisesti: Taivaan kirkkaan kannen alla, siellä rikkaat riitelevät, talonpojat tappelevat, miehet miekoil, vaimot tankoil, piiat pienil vitsasilla, lapset laikka lastusilla.

Metsä-Suomessa (VII5) ja Pohjois-Hämeessä (IX2) kysymyksen sijasta esiintyy toteamus: Kyllä tiijän pesäis paikan, mäen alla männikössä, kuivan kuusen kukkuralla. Tuules on tupais, korves on kotis, kalliol on kartanois -säkeiden kautta aihe vertautuu >Nuku nuku nurmilintu -aiheeseen.

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 39 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s2
1880s6
1890s10
1900s39
1910s115
1920s15
1930s18

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
Aa aa allin lasta5
Tii tii tiainen4
Tii tii tikanpoika teki tielle nauriin4
Ken söi kesävoin?2

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. Tii tii tiainen (Tii tii, little titmouse)
  2. Tii tii tiainen - konttis on niin karvaiset (Chirp Chirp Titmouse, Its Bundle So Hairy)
  3. Tii tiainen laulaa (Chirp, titmouse sings)
  4. Pii pii pieni lintu, paleltaako jalkojasi (Peep, peep, little bird, are your feet cold?)
  5. Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu (Sleep, sleep, meadow bird (lullaby))
  6. Aa aa allin lasta (Lullaby for the duck's child)
  7. Tuomittu katti (The Condemned Cat)
  8. Varpusen olut (Sparrow's Beer)
  9. Tii tii tikanpoika teki tielle nauriin (Tii tii, the young woodpecker grew a turnip by the road)
  10. Lintu tuopi liinapaidan (The bird brings a linen shirt)
  11. Tii, tii tigane (Tii, tii (refrain), little snail)ERAB type
  12. Tii, tii, tihane (Tii, tii, titmouse (bird song))ERAB type
  13. Luuli, luuli, lasta (Luuli, luuli, the child (lullaby refrain))
  14. Kissan surma (Death of the cat)
  15. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  16. Läksin linnaan likaksi (Gone to the castle as a servant)
  17. Ammuin vuodessa tiaisen (I shot a titmouse in a year)
  18. Ampiaisen nostatus (Wasp summoning charm)
  19. Eläinten pidot (Animals' feast)
  20. Kusti (Kusti (Gustav))

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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.