Inari

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

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 28 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 25 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.

• venäläinen verikoira (SKVR XII1 1402.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kirveheillä keitit (SKVR XII1 134 α.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tie saatto talohon (SKVR XII1 1402.) — parallel in Suistamo
• häntä heilui hämehessä (SKVR XII1 1402.) — parallel in Suistamo
• avaimet on portaan alla (JR 52005) — parallel in Juupajoki
• aaa kiiku lullaa (JR 52005) — parallel in Juupajoki
• pippilästä pappilasta (SKVR XII1 2090.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• viisi venettä vertä (SKVR XII1 1402.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mitä pyyät (SKVR XII2 5965.) — parallel in Soikkola
• jänes jauho pää järisi (SKVR XII1 134 α.) — parallel in Kittilä