Jalasjärvi

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 235 poems collected in this place, 62 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 173 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.

• ja tähän minä kolokkuni jättää saan (JR 13598) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• neitsy maria sanoo (JR 81010) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• kantoi kivet kalliolle (JR 13595) — parallel in Laihia
• lypsi lehmät taittoi sarvet (JR 12996) — parallel in Laihia
• hyvän lahjan antamasta (JR 28358) — parallel in Narvusi
• mato musta maanalaanen (SKVR XI 690.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tallukoita kuus (JR 13587) — parallel in Uskela
• keisari seisoo palatsissa (JR 13007) — parallel in Uskela
• kissalle kintaat (JR 13598) — parallel in Teuva
• kirkon yli heitettihin (JR 13596) — parallel in Teuva