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Veneenveisto

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

In English: Boat building (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems327
Verses17,565
Collection places59
Collected1780s to 1930s
CollectorsVolmari Porkka · D. E. D. Europaeus · A. A. Borenius · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Kaarle Krohn · H. A. Reinholm · Jaako Länkelä · A. D. Neovius · A. E. Ahlqvist · Elias Lönnrot

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The archive’s description

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

Veneenveisto vaihtelee parin säkeen mittaisesta toteamuksesta ("X /veisti vuorella venettä, kalkutteli kalliolla) laajempaan kuvaukseen veneen valmistuksesta. Aihe liikkuu eri runojen yhteydessä. Se voi edeltää Laivaretkeä, Polvenhaavaa ja Vipusen virttä ja luonnollisena jatkeena seurata Venepuun etsintää. Veneen valmistajien joukko vaihtelee suuresti: veneen veistäjänä saattaa olla Väinämöinen, Kalovan t. Kalevan poika, Petri tsaari, Ilmallinen, Lauri Lappalainen, Vilmi Vuojelainen, hiisi, vello, minä, luoja, venäläini jne.

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.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1780s1
1820s4
1830s6
1840s57
1850s35
1860s4
1870s36
1880s93
1890s47
1900s32
1910s8
1930s3
year not recorded1

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
Laivaretki215
Venepuun etsintä51
Kanteleen soitto48
Kanteleen synty46
Purren itku37
Suomeen pako33
Vipusen virsi32
Pentin linna30
Polvenhaava28
Ihmemaa16
Sammon ryöstö14
Iro-neito13

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. Purren itku (The boat's lament)
  2. Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
  3. Laivaretki (Ship voyage)
  4. Jaakko Pontus
  5. Suomeen pako (Flight to Finland)
  6. Voi voitonta kylää (Oh, the butterless village)
  7. Sormin soutaminen (Rowing with Fingers)
  8. Ilmanimmen kosinta (Courtship at Ilmaniemi)
  9. Venepuun etsintä (Search for boat timber)
  10. Kiusasin kivelle uida (I Urged Swimming onto the Rock)
  11. Vipusen virsi (Song of Vipunen)
  12. Väinämöisen ammunta (The shooting of Väinämöinen)
  13. Sammon ryöstö (Theft of the Sampo)
  14. Kyynelten vierintä (Rolling tears)
  15. Souda, souda, soutajani (Row, row, my oarsman)
  16. Kanteleen soitto (Playing the kantele)
  17. Sammon taonta (Forging of the Sampo)
  18. Veljeään etsivä neito (Maiden searching for her brother)
  19. Kanteleen synty (Birth of the kantele)
  20. Pentin linna (Pentti's castle)

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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.