Honkajoki

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 198 poems collected in this place, 52 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 146 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.

• toinen poika tohmeroinen (JR 00773) — parallel in Isojoki
• ähkä puhka ähmäröinen (JR 00773) — parallel in Isojoki
• hauvin mustan muotosella (SKVR X2 3657.) — parallel in Narvusi
• sarvet päässä (SKVR X2 4286.) — parallel in Narvusi
• sammakon saappaat (JR 08276) — parallel in Suistamo
• o metsän kultainen kuningas (SKVR X2 4282.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vaik on voita askissa (JR 08284) — parallel in Laihia
• paimenell on kurjat päivät (JR 08284) — parallel in Laihia
• takareki tallaa (JR 08276) — parallel in Karvia
• vesihiisi hevetistä (JR 00768) — parallel in Karvia