Juuka

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 301 poems collected in this place, 62 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 239 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.

• yli kynnyksen kysy (SKVR VII1 326.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• liuskahti lihaan kirves (SKVR VII1 326.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• rakas äiti armollinen (SKVR VII3 loitsut 308.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vuoret vaskiset vapisi (SKVR VII4 loitsut 1719.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pyhä rikka pellon rikka (SKVR VII3 loitsut 561.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• meri puolen kymmenettä (SKVR VII3 loitsut 472.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• viikko vitsalintusesta (JR 26728) — parallel in Kitee
• matikasta maitopyörä (JR 03507) — parallel in Kitee
• pie mua matoo (JR 30229) — parallel in Nurmes
• kengät kielen kätkijälle (SKVR VII2 3668.) — parallel in Nurmes