Alastaro

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 264 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 242 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Sample verses with parallels in other places

Verses recorded here whose close parallels appear in poems from other collection places — a trace of the shared oral tradition.

• kysy tiätä tilkasiin (SKVR X1 108.) — parallel in Pöytyä
• lukkari papin lukevan (JR 09042) — parallel in Pöytyä
• kerjäläisen kengän nokka (JR 33852) — parallel in Tammela
• kalle killi kolloo (SKVR X1 1856.) — parallel in Tammela
• kauramannista matike (SKVR X1 1514.) — parallel in Tyrvää
• aa aa akkan kaija (SKVR X1 386.) — parallel in Tyrvää
• eelin keelin kot (JR 10290) — parallel in Uskela
• ampusin äijältä oikean silmän pois (JR 10290) — parallel in Uskela
• tuli tukki vastaan (SKVR X1 1610.) — parallel in Loppi
• meni akka mettään (SKVR X1 1610.) — parallel in Loppi