Joutseno

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 226 poems collected in this place, 62 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 164 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.

• kylin söi selin makasi (JR 30588) — parallel in Narvusi
• tule neito noppimaan (SKVR VI2 6447.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tulkaa lapset tuvan taa (JR 01052) — parallel in Kivennapa
• varis vaa (JR 01050) — parallel in Kivennapa
• otti pieniä sikoja (SKVR VI2 6429.) — parallel in Sakkola
• liuku soita liuku maita (SKVR VI2 6428 α.) — parallel in Sakkola
• ei ole löylyn löytamistä (SKVR VI2 7217.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tule tänn tule tänn (SKVR VI2 6569.) — parallel in Suistamo
• lapsi kuoli nälkään (SKVR VI2 6464.) — parallel in Lempaala
• lirittelen linnullen (SKVR VI2 6627.) — parallel in Lempaala