Kihniö

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR 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 199 poems collected in this place, 133 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 66 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.

• pajun kuorta pannakses (SKVR X1 2846.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kulta kuppinen käjessä (SKVR X1 2312.) — parallel in Narvusi
• siihen liha kasvakoon (JR 02374) — parallel in Suistamo
• pistä maata pistä puuta (SKVR X1 2683.) — parallel in Parkano
• ja upotan meren syvyyteen (JR 00788) — parallel in Parkano
• tuuti lasta tuonelaan (JR 00796) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kana maidon lämmittää (JR 00795) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• puu puhlas jumalan luoma (SKVR X1 2165.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mettijäinen pieni lintu (SKVR X1 2235.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• seiso niinkun seinä (JR 02371) — parallel in Ikaalinen