Ilmajoki

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 376 poems collected in this place, 40 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 336 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.

• narua hakkaan (JR 05538) — parallel in Laihia
• neitsyt maria sanoo (JR 05535) — parallel in Laihia
• kissalle kintaat (JR 20961) — parallel in Teuva
• kuka tämän sitoman sitoo (JR 18341) — parallel in Teuva
• isoon kiven juurehen (JR 05528) — parallel in Kurikka
• seisov veri tyystyv veri (JR 05523) — parallel in Kurikka
• minkä karva lienetkää (SKVR XI 1382.) — parallel in Suistamo
• elä kylmää kynsiäni (SKVR XI 1904.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vesi sen sammutti (SKVR XI 281.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kylmää kylmiä kiviä (SKVR XI 1904.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi