Harlu

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 136 poems collected in this place, 37 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 99 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.

• virvon varvon viinan eistä (JR 16734) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuo marjua tullessasj (JR 18862) — parallel in Suistamo
• en rakasta minä sinua (JR 18860) — parallel in Kivennapa
• lukkarin lesken lehmän kello (JR 18787) — parallel in Kivennapa
• paista päivä paimenille (JR 18873) — parallel in Narvusi
• pajun juurta pannutkaan (JR 18751) — parallel in Narvusi
• viijää viipurin torille (JR 79476) — parallel in Impilahti
• jumala sinua siunatkoon (JR 16735) — parallel in Impilahti
• enkä velkakirjaa laadi (JR 16735) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• musta härkä tapettiin (JR 43409) — parallel in Ilomantsi