Hankasalmi

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 216 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 199 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.

• vanhan akan vakkasessa (SKVR IX4 1056.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pimpula pampula paimenpoika (SKVR IX2 46.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ota turkki tuiskuselta (JR 04092) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• yheksän meren ylitse (SKVR IX2 294.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kalliolle kartanosi (JR 03747) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tie pellolle pesäsi (JR 03747) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kissa hyppäs kiikun päälle (JR 03757) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• aa lullaa lasta (JR 03757) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• rupesi itse rengiksi (JR 75899) — parallel in Narvusi
• tappoi ruotista rovastin (SKVR IX2 10.) — parallel in Narvusi