Käkisalmi

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 163 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 124 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). 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.

• sotkija joella sotki (SKVR XIII1 77.) — parallel in Narvusi
• musta lintu ei muistantkaan (SKVR XIII1 77.) — parallel in Narvusi
• ettei kaatuisi kapukka (SKVR XIII2 4512.) — parallel in Sakkola
• mist on siihen siemen saatu (JR 00444) — parallel in Sakkola
• viikate löi (JR 51201) — parallel in Lempaala
• keitä keltanen munanen (SKVR XIII2 6387.) — parallel in Lempaala
• kultase kurika kans (JR 29926) — parallel in Vuole
• herkii hyvä jumala (SKVR XIII3 10146.) — parallel in Vuole
• väsy pois sie västäräkki (JR 29920) — parallel in Rautu
• nuku pois sie nurmen nukka (JR 29920) — parallel in Rautu