Hyrynsalmi

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 165 poems collected in this place, 10 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 155 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.

• kivi kimmon kammon poika (SKVR XII1 3871.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• enkä välttäisi vähätä (SKVR XII2 6528.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ampiainen angervoinen (SKVR XII2 4791.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• parrasta parahan miehen (SKVR XII1 4217.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• väinämöisen varpahasen (SKVR XII1 49.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kirves liuskahti lihaan (SKVR XII1 48.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• veitsi vieri taivahasta (SKVR XII2 8486.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vielä puolen kymmenettä (SKVR XII2 6131.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ylimmäisehen talohon (SKVR XII1 47.) — parallel in Kontokki
• kysyy kynnyksen takoa (SKVR XII2 8486.) — parallel in Kontokki