Jämsä

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 331 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 293 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.

• pienet linnut lusikat tuo (JR 46101) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• nuku nuku nurmilintu (JR 10227) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tuskin päiveä peäskysestä (JR 08791) — parallel in Narvusi
• otti pyssyn olallensa (JR 20469) — parallel in Narvusi
• yksi kutoi kultavyötä (JR 10214) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sinisellä säkkisellä (JR 08777) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuo marjoja tullessas (JR 08777) — parallel in Suistamo
• mato musta maan alainen (JR 45621) — parallel in Soikkola
• pisti pinon rakoon (JR 45653) — parallel in Soikkola
• eikä huonossa hovissa (JR 09696) — parallel in Ilomantsi