Impilahti

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 1,126 poems collected in this place, 252 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 874 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• pitkin puita pitkin maita (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3582.) — parallel in Suistamo
• muan kultaset kuninkahat (JR 69055) — parallel in Suistamo
• tarkasta tapiolasta (SKVR VII3 loitsut 62.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ajon matkoa vähäsen (SKVR VII1 373.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• rikko rinnat neitoselta (JR 20458) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tuoman emon ruumihista (SKVR VII4 loitsut 2901.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• miule miehelle hyvälle (SKVR VII1 374.) — parallel in Narvusi
• yksi siipi vettä viilti (SKVR VII3 loitsut 26.) — parallel in Narvusi
• laki piälle lankiaa (JR 22478) — parallel in Suojärvi
• laki piälle lankiaapi (JR 69063) — parallel in Suojärvi