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Veere, päev!

Runosong type in the classification of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database

In English: Roll on, sun! (evening work song) (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLooduslaulud (nature songs) › Aastaajad ja loodusnähtused
Poems176
Verses2,788
Collection places63
Collected1860s to 1930s
CollectorsGustav Seen · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Peeter Kurg · J. Peeterson · Ado Grenzstein · Karl Ruut · August Kiiss · Mihkel Pehka · Oskar Philipp Kallas

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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 3 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1860s2
1870s9
1880s41
1890s61
1900s16
1910s13
1920s13
1930s3
year not recorded18

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
Veere venna juurde113
Päev soeb sulaste päid, pole aega veereda26
Veere vaese vaeva tõttu18
Harja otsimine12
Mõõk merest10
Luust sõrmus7
Ori ootab õhtut5
Kodu kuus, kõik kurjad4
Kohus koju minna4
Ori tahab süüa4
Kuri kodu3
Meri - luust sõrmus3

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. Harja otsimine (Searching for a comb)
  2. Päev soeb sulaste päid (Day Combs the Farmhands' Heads)
  3. Päev veereb (The day rolls on)
  4. Mõõk merest (Sword from the Sea)
  5. Veere, päike! (Roll on, sun!)
  6. Päev soeb sulaste päid, pole aega veereda (The sun combs the servants' heads, no time to rest)
  7. Päeva veeremine (The Rolling of the Day)
  8. Päike soeb sulaste pääd (The Sun Combs the Servants' Heads)
  9. Suga meres (Weaving Reed in the Sea)
  10. Veere vaese vaeva tõttu (Because of the poor one's suffering)
  11. Pühadeks kased koju (Birches brought home for the holidays)
  12. Karjasel loomi puudu (Herdsman's missing livestock)
  13. Veere, päev, saksa kiusuks (Roll on, day, to spite the master)
  14. Päev, lõunasse (Sun, hasten to noon)
  15. Meri - sõrmus (Sea ring)
  16. Karjasel kuri kodu (The Shepherd's Cruel Home)
  17. Paista, päev! (Shine, sun! (sun-charm))
  18. Neiu (Maiden)
  19. Meri õue all (The sea by our yard)
  20. Paimenen kivinen kakku (Shepherd's Stone Loaf)SKVR type

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the type index of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database; the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.