Ikaalinen

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 437 poems collected in this place, 28 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 409 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.

• äitini kultainen (JR 19953) — parallel in Narvusi
• mistä on miekkasi vereen tullut (JR 19953) — parallel in Narvusi
• asu niinku aita (SKVR X1 2408.) — parallel in Parkano
• helvetin tules (SKVR X1 2415.) — parallel in Parkano
• jeesuksen kristuksen kalliiseen nimeen (SKVR X2 4885.) — parallel in Kankaanpää
• vesi varjokkoon (SKVR X2 4886.) — parallel in Kankaanpää
• muilta mailta vierahilta (JR 19953) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ei ole löylyn löytämistä (SKVR X2 3443.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ensimmäinen enkeli (JR 73697) — parallel in Suistamo
• siellä on muutkin murhamiehet (SKVR X2 3294.) — parallel in Suistamo