Keski-Inkeri

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, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 310 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.

• siellä takkoo hiien seppä (JR 02998) — parallel in Soikkola
• hiien seppä helkyttää (JR 02998) — parallel in Soikkola
• antoi kuitenkin vähäisen (SKVR IV2 1742.) — parallel in Narvusi
• takoi miule kanteloisen (JR 61691) — parallel in Narvusi
• tuopa lukkuun lutisti (JR 02998) — parallel in Tyrö
• tuon mie kynsin kynsilläin (SKVR IV2 1742.) — parallel in Tyrö
• jumala jaloille nousi (JR 02998) — parallel in Kaprio
• kuori leivän alkajalle (JR 05723) — parallel in Lempaala
• luu lihan valitsijalle (JR 05723) — parallel in Lempaala
• vaati vaivasen pojalle (JR 05747) — parallel in Moloskovitsa