Inkere

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 52 poems collected in this place, 6 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 46 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.

• tao rautainen harava (SKVR IV1 223.) — parallel in Narvusi
• la mie laulan lapsellen (SKVR IV1 210.) — parallel in Narvusi
• virpoi varpoi vitsat siul (JR 77734) — parallel in Venjoki
• kauemmaks ei kelpaa (JR 77734) — parallel in Venjoki
• viikoks velkaa (JR 77734) — parallel in Soikkola
• veen pinnassa pysyypi (SKVR IV1 187.) — parallel in Soikkola
• nuoren lehmän nännäsestä (JR 77877) — parallel in Lempaala
• vanhan ämmän vakkasesta (JR 77877) — parallel in Lempaala
• kuin on vanhat soutamassa (SKVR IV1 183.) — parallel in Tyrö
• untamon sota tuloo (SKVR IV1 192.) — parallel in Tyrö