Kangasniemi

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 766 poems collected in this place, 243 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 523 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.

• ahven antti sären säntti (SKVR VI2 5119.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tule onkeen ottamaan (JR 46084) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• pikimusta pitkäparta (JR 08947) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• paksut leivät paistettihin (JR 08947) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• laurin poika lappalainen (JR 08941) — parallel in Narvusi
• minä kaku kalamiehelle (SKVR VI1 2102.) — parallel in Narvusi
• lähtehet läkähtynehet (JR 08944) — parallel in Suistamo
• poikkki pohjolan joesta (SKVR VI2 6416.) — parallel in Suistamo
• liekkö ne ämmät säikytelleet (JR 82135) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• etana näytä sarvias (JR 76624) — parallel in Ilomantsi