Brandval

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 35 poems collected in this place, 16 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 19 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.

• alta nuurumattomaks (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 218.) — parallel in Suistamo
• voi minua polonen poika (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 20.) — parallel in Suistamo
• nouse luontoini lovesta (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 45.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• meri puolen kymmenetta (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 211.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kätke kynnet karvoins (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 322.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• johon puut tyvin putovat (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 251.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• seiso kuin seinä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 184.) — parallel in Östmark
• heiluvaan helvettiin (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 283.) — parallel in Östmark
• kala hauvin karvaisella (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 127.) — parallel in Narvusi
• läp kuun läp päivän (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 322.) — parallel in Narvusi