Hiitola

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 the songs were collected in

Of the 499 poems collected in this place, 275 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 224 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.

• karhun maksat kainalossa (SKVR XIII2 3698.) — parallel in Lempaala
• niin tyttö on ison kotona (SKVR XIII2 3799.) — parallel in Lempaala
• pieni kirves kelkkasessa (JR 01627) — parallel in Narvusi
• näitä maita marssimaan (SKVR XIII3 9484.) — parallel in Narvusi
• alla linnan liirittelen (SKVR XIII1 345.) — parallel in Vuole
• sanan veisi toisen toisi (SKVR XIII3 7235.) — parallel in Vuole
• sima suussais sullaa (SKVR XIII3 8965.) — parallel in Sakkola
• elä itke meijän neito (JR 01626) — parallel in Kurkijoki
• orokärsä tien osasi (SKVR XIII2 3589.) — parallel in Kurkijoki
• tuoreeks terveeks (JR 01638) — parallel in Suistamo