Etelä-Karjala

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.

Parishes and places filed under Etelä-Karjala

Of the 725 poems collected under this name, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 686 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: khk. = kihelkond (parish). 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.

• kun näkisin leikattavan (SKVR XIII1 975.) — parallel in Lempaala
• karhun maksat kainalossa (SKVR XV 642.) — parallel in Lempaala
• kannel kamarin ovella (SKVR XIII1 1630.) — parallel in Narvusi
• päällei hyvät hopiat (SKVR XIII1 1298 a.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kanat aijall asetti (SKVR XIII1 488.) — parallel in Vuole
• tuo poltti pojilta polvet (SKVR XIII3 8720.) — parallel in Vuole
• avattiin hopiaportti (SKVR XIII1 1424.) — parallel in Sakkola
• kirkkoherran kirjan lehti (SKVR XIII3 7118.) — parallel in Sakkola
• voita maitoa kantamaan (SKVR XIII3 9844.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tamman kauppa tanterella (SKVR XIII2 2823.) — parallel in Suistamo