Keuruu

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 169 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 166 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.

• hyvällä herran hengellä (SKVR X2 3170.) — parallel in Suistamo
• päästä piikaa pintehestä (SKVR X2 3873.) — parallel in Suistamo
• saappaat jalassa (JR 46647) — parallel in Narvusi
• toinen poika tohveloinen (SKVR X2 3871.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mene tuonne kuhun käsken (SKVR X2 3868.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• hieno hiekka permanto (JR 02390) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• siellä on tupa turvekatto (JR 02390) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• vaimoa vatsan vääntehestä (SKVR X2 3873.) — parallel in Soikkola
• tämä tuskalta tulee (SKVR X2 3691.) — parallel in Soikkola
• puhu en omalla suulla (SKVR X2 3170.) — parallel in Ilomantsi