Jääski

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 157 poems collected in this place, 54 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 103 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: l. = linn (town). 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.

• katso parvesta parasta (SKVR XIII3 7279.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• miepä laulan lapsen virren (SKVR XIII2 5204.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• likka istuu kammiossa (SKVR XIII1 669.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuoreeksi terveeksi (SKVR XIII4 13366.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tule neito noppimaa (SKVR XIII1 764.) — parallel in Narvusi
• muijen mustien seasta (SKVR XIII3 7279.) — parallel in Narvusi
• nyt on tehty teelusikat (JR 82407) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• heti kohta suomen herrat (JR 82407) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• palkka miul (JR 18641) — parallel in Sakkola
• tuoreeks terveeks tulevaks vuodeks (JR 18640) — parallel in Sakkola