Varkaalle menijä

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

In English: The girl who marries a thief (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

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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: Neito kyselee puolisoa veljelleen. Keskustellaan eri ammateista (mm. seppä, kyntäjä, varas) ja vertaillaan niitä. Useimmiten varas arvioidaan parhaimmaksi.

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.

• Narvusi (20)
• Lempaala (12)
• Kupanitsa (9)
• Soikkola (8)
• Tyrö (7)
• Kaprio (6)
• Moloskovitsa (6)
• Rautu (6)
• Serepetta (6)
• Toksova (6)
• Metsäpirtti (5)
• Uusikirkko Vpl. (5)
• Venjoki (5)
• Vuole (4)
• Hietamäki (3)
• Liissilä (2)
• Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (2)
• Suistamo (2)
• Etelä-Karjala (1)
• Hiitola (1)
• Juva (1)
• Räisälä (1)
• Sakkola (1)
• Soanlahti (1)
• Spankkova (1)

When it was collected

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.

• Emo lasta laaitteli, SKVR III1 93. — Narvusi
• Annuska Turusen tyttö, SKVR V1 637. — Lempaala
• Kati kasvo kaunis kyläss, SKVR IV1 745. — Kupanitsa
• Näin miä neion niemen päästä, SKVR III2 1557. — Soikkola
• Etsin neittä vellolleni, SKVR IV1 477. — Tyrö
• Etsin neittä velolleni, SKVR IV1 832. — Kaprio
• Etsin neittä vellolleni, SKVR IV1 913. — Moloskovitsa
• Annukka Turusen tyttö SKVR XIII1 812. — Rautu
• Etsin neittä veikolleni. SKVR IV1 1409. — Serepetta
• Iivana Kojosen poika, SKVR V1 215. — Toksova

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.

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. Löysin neitosen lehosta (I found a maiden in the grove)
2. Veljeään etsivä neito (Maiden searching for her brother)
3. Annikaisen virsi (Annikainen's song)
4. Meren kosijat (Sea suitors)
5. Rutsa
6. Kävin tietä terhollista (I Walked the Acorn Road)
7. Kasvoi neito Kaarelassa (A Maiden Grew Up in Kaarela)
8. Leskimies ja nuorimies kosijoina (Widower and Young Man as Suitors)
9. Se on meillä kovinta työtä (That's Our Hardest Work)
10. Paha on olla paimenena (It is hard to be a shepherd)
11. Tuuti lasta lampuriksi (Rock the Child to Be a Farmer)
12. Viitsit olla vierosess, alla kainalon asua (You'd care to be at my side, to dwell under my arm)
13. Etsin neittä neljä vuotta (Four Years Searching for a Maiden)
14. Tuo lehdosta leivän (Bring Bread from the Grove)
15. Pääsit kyntäjän kylelle (You reached the plowman's village)
16. Kävin tietä ingen tingen (I walked the road, nothing at all)
17. Tuuterin tuhmat miehet (The Foolish Men of Tuuteri)
18. Lintunen lehossa lauloi (Little Bird Sang in the Grove)
19. Etsit neittä neljä vuotta (Searched four years for a maiden)
20. Neitoa kositaan eri paikkoihin (Maiden wooed from many places)

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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.