Jällivaara

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 180 poems collected in this place, 108 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 72 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.

• ihmiselle terveys (SKVR XII2 5840.) — parallel in Narvusi
• karhu kutoi kangasta (JR 52144) — parallel in Narvusi
• villa viisi hammasta (JR 52115) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mistä olet tullut (JR 52165) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tässä on sinun kotisi (SKVR XII2 7766.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pieni kelkka perässä (JR 52140) — parallel in Suistamo
• piä haava varas (JR 52103) — parallel in Kittilä
• kun pyy pyrähti (JR 52214) — parallel in Kittilä
• missäs aitta tuli poltti (JR 52143) — parallel in Soikkola
• kivut ottamaan (SKVR XII1 4390.) — parallel in Soikkola