Ilomantsi

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,267 poems collected in this place, 377 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,890 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.

• saatu saksan kaupungista (JR 00410) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tulla tuomarin tupahan (JR 00414) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• peräpaksu paiskattihin (JR 00419) — parallel in Suistamo
• ostin oulusta orihin (JR 00419) — parallel in Suistamo
• mehiläinen mettä kanto (JR 00418) — parallel in Narvusi
• itse istusi tuvassa (JR 00421) — parallel in Narvusi
• varvalle varattomalle (SKVR VII2 1768.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• yli meren yheksän (JR 44208) — parallel in Suojärvi
• karvanen kanan munaksi (JR 00418) — parallel in Uhtua
• katehen kovan etehen (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3904.) — parallel in Uhtua