Jurva

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 89 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 51 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.

• aitan alla (JR 80836) — parallel in Laihia
• nimehen isän ja pojan ja pyhän hengen (JR 03388) — parallel in Laihia
• jo se parani (SKVR XI 2236.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• ja hopiaanen kauha kattilas (JR 51480) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• yksi kutoo kultavyötä (JR 80835) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kirjavan kiven sisälle (SKVR XI 276.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tuutii lasta tuonelahan (SKVR XI 2525.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ota vihas (SKVR XI 1552.) — parallel in Suistamo
• mihinkäs hiiri parka menet (JR 80837) — parallel in Narvusi
• mitä siellä tehrähän (JR 80835) — parallel in Narvusi