Kerimäki

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 319 poems collected in this place, 16 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 303 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.

• kuningas kypärätään (JR 75900) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ei oo aittaan asiata (JR 47300) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• miepä laulan lapsen viren (SKVR VI1 316.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• jos ei pihlaja pitänek (SKVR VI2 5405.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• paista päivä paimenelle (SKVR VI1 904.) — parallel in Narvusi
• paistap päivä paimenelle (SKVR VI1 905.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pahat paikat paltinoilla (SKVR VI2 4827.) — parallel in Suistamo
• panen aitoo (SKVR VI1 2478.) — parallel in Suistamo
• veri tippu vempelestä (SKVR VI1 3.) — parallel in Lempaala
• tulisella tanterella (SKVR VI1 4.) — parallel in Lempaala