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Tuomaan runo

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

In English: St. Thomas's song (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underErilaisissa tilanteissa (songs for various occasions) › Kalendaarilaulut
Poems286
Verses2,080
Collection places92
Collected1850s to 1930s
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Esko Aaltonen · Moision kansakoulu · Vilho Saariluoma · V. J. Kallio · Niilo Kallio · Veikko Ruoppila · Ulla Mannonen · T. Renlund · Laina Hänninen

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The archive’s description

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

Tähän kootut tekstit liittyvät kalendaariseen Tuomaan päivään. Muut Tuomaan kutsut lemmenlaulussa Tule tänne ystäväni. Joulun tulo -runossa samaa ainesta (personointi, ruoat Tuomaan selässä, sirkan siipi, paarman jalka yms. aitassa). Talon tunnukset -aihe (tervaristi, rautarengas) sekä sitä jatkava koira-aihelma (Tuomas ei tahdo tulla vihaisen koiran takia) liittyvät Tuomaan runoon läntisillä alueilla: VIII, IX, X, XIV.

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 32 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1850s5
1870s2
1880s14
1890s7
1900s23
1910s189
1920s11
1930s35

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
Joulun tulo16
Talon tunnukset7
Hyvä Tuomas joulun tuopi, paha Nuutti pois sen viepi5
Pikku lintu lakki päässä4
Tule kultanen kosihin4
Kiikun kaakun kissan jalka3
Huis sika metsään3

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. Joulun tulo (The coming of Christmas)
  2. Hoi, kotio, konnan karja (Hey, homeward, you rogue's cattle!)
  3. Sirkan siipi, torakan koipi (Cricket's wing, cockroach's leg)
  4. Tuu, tuu, tupakkirulla (Tuu, tuu, tobacco roll (lullaby))
  5. Antti (Andrew)
  6. Talon tunnukset (Homestead Signs)
  7. Asso
  8. Jänis juoksi jäätä myöten (The hare ran along the ice)
  9. Hei, hei, Heikin vaimo (Hey, hey, Heikki's wife)
  10. Hyvä Tuomas joulun tuopi, paha Nuutti pois sen viepi (Good Thomas brings Christmas, bad Knut takes it away)
  11. Tule neitonen minulle (Come to me, maiden)
  12. Rikas ja köyhä (The Rich and the Poor)
  13. Tule kultanen kosihin (Come, dear one, to woo me)
  14. Nuutin runo (St. Knut's Day song)
  15. Älä ole kylän kielikello (Don't be the village gossip)
  16. Vuoden jakaminen viikottain (Dividing the year by weeks)
  17. Tuomas (Thomas)
  18. Rujo neito (The Deformed Maiden)
  19. Nurmi-Tuomas (Nurmi-Tuomas (Thomas of the Meadow))
  20. Anna

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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.