Iitti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 302 poems collected in this place, 114 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 188 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.

• sika sureksi sikisi (JR 47669) — parallel in Narvusi
• kiriaviia porsahiia (JR 47669) — parallel in Narvusi
• tii tii tii tikanpoika (JR 37036) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tii tii tii tii tikanpoika (JR 24839) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• lukkarin lesken lehmänkelloo (JR 24827) — parallel in Kivennapa
• kalliolle kartanos (SKVR IX1 1054.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• tui tui tui tupakkarullaa (JR 24842) — parallel in Suistamo
• kymmenen meren ylitte (JR 24847) — parallel in Kymi
• tallukoita kuus (JR 49142) — parallel in Kymi
• tammisen tapin takana (JR 10272) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi