Venepuun etsintä
Runosong type in the classification of SKVR, the Finnish Literature Society’s runosong corpus
In English: Search for boat timber (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)
| Filed under | Kertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka |
|---|---|
| Poems | 110 |
| Verses | 4,877 |
| Collection places | 27 |
| Collected | 1780s to 1930s |
| Collectors | A. A. Borenius · A. D. Neovius · Volmari Porkka · D. E. D. Europaeus · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Elias Lönnrot · Jaako Länkelä · A. E. Ahlqvist · H. A. Reinholm · Fr. A. Saxbäck |
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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.
- Lempaala (20)
- Soikkola (11)
- Vuokkiniemi (11)
- Vuole (10)
- Sakkola (6)
- Metsäpirtti (4)
- Narvusi (4)
- Toksova (4)
- Uhtua (4)
- Kaprio (3)
- Pistojärvi (3)
- Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (3)
- Rautu (3)
- Soanlahti (3)
- Suojärvi (3)
- Ilomantsi (2)
- Kiimaisjärvi (2)
- Kontokki (2)
- Serepetta (2)
- Etelä-Karjala (1)
- Heinjoki (1)
- Kiestinki (1)
- Kurkijoki (1)
- Miikkulainen (1)
- Rääpyvä (1)
- Uusikirkko Vpl. (1)
- Vieljärvi (1)
When it was collected
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1780s | 2 |
| 1820s | 1 |
| 1830s | 7 |
| 1840s | 14 |
| 1850s | 21 |
| 1860s | 2 |
| 1870s | 9 |
| 1880s | 23 |
| 1890s | 19 |
| 1900s | 4 |
| 1910s | 6 |
| 1920s | 1 |
| 1930s | 1 |
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.
- Hiho päivän kirvestäi SKVR V1 1071. — Lempaala
- Menin minä metsään kesolla, SKVR III1 346. — Soikkola
- Tuop' on nuori Joukahaińi SKVR I1 92. — Vuokkiniemi
- Käin mie tietä ingentingen, SKVR V1 1083. — Vuole
- Hihoin päivä kirves terä SKVR XIII1 1348. — Sakkola
- Kävin mä piittä pitkä matka, SKVR XIII1 591. — Metsäpirtti
- Hiisi hiutti kirvestään, SKVR III1 72. — Narvusi
- Hihoin päivän kirvestäin, SKVR V1 1066. — Toksova
- Tuop' oli Väinämöinen SKVR I1 344. — Uhtua
- Virolain, viisas poika, SKVR IV2 2029. — Kaprio
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.
- Jaakko Pontus
- Suomeen pako (Flight to Finland)
- Kirkon tarvisaineiden etsintä (Seeking materials for the church)
- Purren itku (The boat's lament)
- Voi voitonta kylää (Oh, the butterless village)
- Pentin linna (Pentti's castle)
- Veneenveisto (Boat building)
- Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
- Ihmemaa (Wonderland)
- Laivaretki (Ship voyage)
- Kyll on päiviä kesässä (Indeed There Are Days in Summer)
- Iso tammi (The great oak)
- Vene ja purje puhki kivisillä kengillä (Through with boat and sail on stone-soled shoes)
- Löysin karjan kankahalta, panin paimenen papiksi (Found the herd on the heath, made the shepherd a priest)
- Tule tehdyille teloille (Come to the Finished Frame)
- Vipusen virsi (Song of Vipunen)
- Kanavan rakennus (Building the canal)
- Souda laiva Suomeen (Row the Ship to Finland)
- Kävin tietä pikkaraisen (I Walked a Little Path)
- Iso härkä (The great ox)
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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.