Joutsa

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 89 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 81 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.

• kuulusteli kuoharia (JR 06811) — parallel in Suistamo
• ennen päivän nousemista (JR 06810) — parallel in Suistamo
• kyllä minä hapanta hankin (JR 06811) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tuli solmut suonten päihin (JR 06811) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• vaikk ois karhu kaulan päällä (SKVR IX1 56.) — parallel in Narvusi
• ja aitoja alentamaan (SKVR IX1 56.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pitkän univirren (SKVR IX1 2187.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• teki salvun seisaallansa (JR 06811) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• luo löyly lähetä lämmin (JR 06812) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• eikä saanut salvuria (JR 06811) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi