Hirvensalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

Explore Hirvensalmi in the interactive places map · regional heritage profile

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 174 poems collected in this place, 52 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 122 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.

• varas tuli varvikosta (SKVR VI1 112.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mies vihainen viitikosta (SKVR VI1 112.) — parallel in Narvusi
• anna mulle rautahammas (SKVR VI1 2261.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kana maion lämmittää (JR 23851) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• päästä päivistä pahoista (JR 04232) — parallel in Suistamo
• vihollinen venäläinen (JR 04232) — parallel in Suistamo
• päästi päiviltä pahoilta (JR 04232) — parallel in Soikkola
• rahat markan maksavaksi (JR 04232) — parallel in Soikkola
• mäne sinne kunnek käsken (SKVR VI2 5460.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• varsin juhlavaateisi (JR 04232) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi