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Vipusen virsi

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

In English: Song of Vipunen (a translation; the archive names the type in Finnish only)

Filed underKertovat runot (narrative songs) › Epiikka
Poems177
Verses9,737
Collection places31
Collected1760s to 1930s
CollectorsA. A. Borenius · Elias Lönnrot · D. E. D. Europaeus · I. K. Inha · A. Berner · Kaarle Krohn · H. A. Reinholm · Zacharias Topelius · A. Genetz · A. E. Ahlqvist

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The archive’s description

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

Tuonelassa käynti ilmentää samaa ideaa kuin Vipusen virsi: molemmissa mennään hakemaan tuonpuoleisesta (Tuonelta, kauan sitten kuolleelta tietäjältä Vipuselta) sanoja veneenveistoon. Tuonelassa käynnin keskeinen osa on dialogi Tuonelan väen kanssa ("mi sium Manalle suatto?"), Vipusen virressä pajan valmistus, rautaseiväs, joka syöstään Vipusen suuhun ja saadaan sanat. Huom. motiivi, jossa kuvataan matkaa Vipusen luo pitkin "naisten neulojen neniä" vrt. Kilpakosinta. Pohjanmaalla Vipus-aihe liittyy myös tautiloitsuihin: tauti (riisi) manataan "suuhun Antero Vipusen". Etelässä aihe muuntunut siten, että "virsikäs Vipusen poika" tekee tiedolla venettä.

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
1760s1
1810s2
1820s10
1830s28
1840s30
1850s1
1870s50
1880s22
1890s22
1900s8
1910s1
1930s1
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
Veneenveisto32
Laivaretki28
Kanteleen soitto24
Kanteleen synty20
Sammon ryöstö17
Tuonelassa käynti17
Lemminkäisen virsi16
Polvenhaava15
Purren itku8
Kilpalaulanta8
Riisi6
Riiden synty6

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. Väinämöisen ammunta (The shooting of Väinämöinen)
  3. Tuonelassa käynti (Journey to Tuonela)
  4. Polvenhaava (Knee wound)
  5. Laivaretki (Ship voyage)
  6. Sammon taonta (Forging of the Sampo)
  7. Ilmanimmen kosinta (Courtship at Ilmaniemi)
  8. Saaren neidot (The Island Maidens)
  9. Taivaan taonta (Forging of the Sky)
  10. Veneenveisto (Boat building)
  11. Kanteleen synty (Birth of the kantele)
  12. Kanteleen soitto (Playing the kantele)
  13. Vesille venehen mieli, naisen miehelään (The boat longs for water, the woman for wedlock)
  14. Sammon ryöstö (Theft of the Sampo)
  15. Oluen uhkaus (The Ale's Threat)
  16. Kilpakosinta (Rival suitors)
  17. Kyynelten vierintä (Rolling tears)
  18. Venepuun etsintä (Search for boat timber)
  19. Vellamon neidon onginta (Angling for Vellamo's Maiden)
  20. Haittan' on hako vesillä, köyhät eellä rikkahalla (A snag hinders the waters, the poor before the rich)

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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.