Kemi

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 1,740 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,720 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.

• viitola vaatola mantola kantola (JR 56706) — parallel in Alatornio
• viitola vaatola kantola mantola (JR 56685) — parallel in Alatornio
• veittellä kärettömällä (SKVR XII1 62.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• tuletkos minulle neiti (SKVR XII1 62.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• osikin tosikin toukun loukun (JR 55603) — parallel in Peräpohjola
• kävelin kerran pitkällä sillalla (JR 55602) — parallel in Peräpohjola
• kaheksas kalajoelta (JR 55608) — parallel in Kemijärvi
• seittemäs seinäjoelta (JR 55608) — parallel in Kemijärvi
• viites virkkulasta (SKVR XII1 1501.) — parallel in Turtola
• kolmas koskelta kotosin (SKVR XII1 1499.) — parallel in Turtola