Karttula

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 284 poems collected in this place, 120 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 164 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• laho kanto kartanosi (JR 47783) — parallel in Suistamo
• emäntä huusi pois (JR 14121) — parallel in Suistamo
• ohtoiseni lintuiseni (SKVR VI2 5445.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• jolla voijellaan venettä (JR 47802) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ennätti emo sanoa (JR 30322) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kylymä maita kylymä soita (SKVR VI1 3592.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• yhen söi toisen möi (JR 26766) — parallel in Narvusi
• nuoren lehmän nännistä (JR 47810) — parallel in Narvusi
• pitäs panna sauna lämmitä (JR 14120) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• siikanen sinun nimes (JR 47775) — parallel in Saarijärvi