Evijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 209 poems collected in this place, 165 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 44 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.

• joka ei usko menkööt pois (JR 03786) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• sinipää punapää puts (JR 03788) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• rikkahan talon lapsia (JR 13154) — parallel in Narvusi
• kun sunnuntai tuli seuraava (JR 13154) — parallel in Narvusi
• veri seisoo kun seinä (SKVR XI 1754.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kylmiä kiviä (SKVR XI 1912.) — parallel in Suistamo
• keltasen kukan päästä (SKVR XI 303.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mistäs nuori lehmä (SKVR XI 303.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• hämeenlinnan härkätietä (JR 20592) — parallel in Kivennapa
• tulin pitkin turun tietä (JR 20592) — parallel in Kivennapa