Heinävesi

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 914 poems collected in this place, 587 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 327 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: m. = mõis (manor). 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.

• missä pesäs lienee (JR 53828) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• piu pau papinkello (JR 53625) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• suurella aika roikat (JR 53672) — parallel in Nurmes
• pienelä linnula piipottimet (SKVR VI2 6691.) — parallel in Nurmes
• sormet soittajan kuluu (JR 54149) — parallel in Suistamo
• aa aa aholla (JR 53690) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuoppa lapselle marjoja (JR 53701) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• hös sika mehtään (JR 53726) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• eläkä ihmise ihhoo (SKVR VI2 7257.) — parallel in Narvusi
• talavet syötti tahtahaala (JR 41035) — parallel in Narvusi