ATU 1889P Horse Repaired
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The tale in brief
A liar tells how his horse was cut in two and how he mended it, sewing the halves together, in some versions with twigs that take root and grow. In the one Finnish song the singer loads his gelding with seventy sacks of rye and more until its back breaks, mends it by driving a long stake right through it, and then sells it at the fair.
Summary written for RunoVerse and checked against the Finnic texts linked on this page.
Runosong types
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- Kyntäjän satu The Plowman's Tale · SKVR · 1 poem
Finnic sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Karelian Kecskeméti/Paunonen 1974
Full references:
- Kecskeméti/Paunonen 1974: Kecskeméti, István; Paunonen, Heikki: Die Märchentypen in den Publikationen der Finnisch-ugrischen Gesellschaft. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 73 (1974), 205–265.
Sources
Tale-type number, title, classification, related types and the Finnic sources: Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types of International Folktales (FF Communications 284–286, Helsinki 2004). · Uther 2004, part II (FF Communications 285), free online ↗
Possibly related runosong types: a reading of the song types by a language model (Claude Opus 5.5, 2 November 2026); only links it rated high or medium in confidence are shown.
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