Jaakkima

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 599 poems collected in this place, 200 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 399 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.

• olen kortta korkiampi (JR 00413) — parallel in Narvusi
• miehen kanta kaunokaine (SKVR XIII2 4493.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kivet luomani kokohon (JR 00413) — parallel in Lempaala
• ajo vanha väinämöinen (JR 00413) — parallel in Lempaala
• kynttä mustoa pitempi (JR 00413) — parallel in Suistamo
• toinen nuori joukahainen (JR 00413) — parallel in Suistamo
• kultakuppi lautasella (JR 02983) — parallel in Kurkijoki
• isännälle ikä pitkä (SKVR XIII4 13361.) — parallel in Kurkijoki
• aita ratko rautanenki (JR 02983) — parallel in Vuole
• riko sie risuine aita (JR 02983) — parallel in Vuole