Alatornio

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,012 poems collected in this place, 688 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,324 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.

• viitola vaatola kantola mantola (JR 47066) — parallel in Kemi
• koivun oksa oikaisee (JR 39951) — parallel in Kemi
• tästä joukosta yksi pois (JR 47070) — parallel in Peräpohjola
• sulaperä suittia valaperä vaittia (JR 47066) — parallel in Peräpohjola
• kuudes kuusamosta (SKVR XII1 1486.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• kolmas koskelta kotoisin (SKVR XII1 1448.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• väsy väsy väsy västäräkki (JR 55913) — parallel in Turtola
• kymmenes kyrölassilta (SKVR XII1 1460.) — parallel in Turtola
• kyllä herra herättää (JR 55233) — parallel in Kemijärvi
• käännä itses sangen vitses (JR 55229) — parallel in Kemijärvi