Etelä-Savo

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 409 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 406 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.

• mieleni minun teköpi (JR 02256) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• hovilankin kartanohon (JR 02272) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• metsän kultainen kuningas (SKVR VI2 5325.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kyll on kynsillä kokoo (JR 38216) — parallel in Suistamo
• eikä tietä kellarihin (JR 02295) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• koriammat kohti käynek (SKVR VI2 liite III 25.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• allaalla on allin mieli (SKVR VI2 liite II 4.) — parallel in Juva
• aa a akana (JR 80381) — parallel in Juva
• toi jumala suuren tuulen (SKVR VI1 948.) — parallel in Narvusi
• toi pa jumala suuren tuulen (SKVR VI1 947.) — parallel in Narvusi