Kainuu

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 170 poems collected in this place, 86 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 84 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.

• kirposi tulikipinä (SKVR XII2 8510.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• paha pontta pyörähytti (SKVR XII1 28.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• portit pohjolan näkyvi (SKVR XII1 71.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kirves liuskahti lihahan (SKVR XII1 27.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• sopikoon luojan sormet (SKVR XII2 5375.) — parallel in Suistamo
• syömässä kaluamassa (SKVR XII2 5513.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vanha akka vaipan alta (SKVR XII1 25.) — parallel in Kontokki
• kanna hyyhmän karvallista (SKVR XII1 4534.) — parallel in Kontokki
• päiveä ihailemahan (SKVR XII2 6826.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• kivi kirsosi alenna (SKVR XII2 8004.) — parallel in Suomussalmi