Kiestinki

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 252 poems collected in this place, 217 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 35 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.

• hyvä koira kahlehessa (SKVR I1 513.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tinarinta riitelöy (SKVR I1 513.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• aittaset alentelekse (SKVR I3 1736.) — parallel in Uhtua
• ratsun jouten juosseheksi (JR 17638) — parallel in Uhtua
• ukko uunilta putosi (SKVR I4 2149#1.) — parallel in Suistamo
• perehessä vierahassa (JR 02718) — parallel in Suistamo
• läpi mättähän mänijän (JR 17996) — parallel in Kontokki
• pilkat pilvien lomista (SKVR I1 erill. [Kojosen poika] 1. (Kiestinki)) — parallel in Kontokki
• hankat hanhena hatshatti (JR 28073) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• kunne läksit väinämöini (SKVR I1 513.) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi