Artjärvi

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 137 poems collected in this place, 14 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 123 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.

• kukkojussi kuustoist (JR 04366) — parallel in Iitti
• lyö häntäs leppäh (JR 02162) — parallel in Iitti
• kuru kuru kuppiin (JR 04368) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• yttenä kattena korotia vonnaa (JR 04365) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• heijaa tuutaa lasta (SKVR XIV 391.) — parallel in Orimattila
• tulin pitkin turun tietä (JR 02167) — parallel in Orimattila
• lunasta minut täält (SKVR XIV 52.) — parallel in Suistamo
• suo sorahti maa järähti (SKVR XIV 23.) — parallel in Suistamo
• paraalla lypsyajal (SKVR XIV 52.) — parallel in Narvusi
• paraalla sotaajall (SKVR XIV 52.) — parallel in Narvusi