Anjala

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 163 poems collected in this place, 5 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 158 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• minä kurja kuusen parran (SKVR XIV 239.) — parallel in Kymi
• tillikka tiepukka (JR 08968) — parallel in Kymi
• tee pellolle pesäs (SKVR XIV 631.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• piu pau papin kelloo (SKVR XIV 1316.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• piika jalo siivollinen (SKVR XIV 83.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tyttö talos toimellinen (SKVR XIV 83.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tii tii tikan poikaa (SKVR XIV 1418.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• tupa uusi turvekkatto (SKVR XIV 744.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• sika silavatansa (SKVR XIV 1609.) — parallel in Iitti
• entä kanto karhu kaato (JR 02623) — parallel in Iitti