Grue Finnskog

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 25 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 3 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.

• oi ukkoi ylijumala (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 227.) — parallel in Suistamo
• yhtenä kesäsä yönä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 276.) — parallel in Suistamo
• päältä nuurumattomax (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 288.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• liejuisilla paikoilla (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 317.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• puhä poika kohattin (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 236.) — parallel in Östmark
• luojan luostarinen ovella (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 234.) — parallel in Östmark
• minä kavahin aialle (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 33.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• niillä minä lentää löyhöttelin (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 33.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ei kivi kipuja tunne (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 227.) — parallel in Kontokki
• åj okkåj yli jomala (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 227.) — parallel in Suojärvi