Kiikka

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 149 poems collected in this place, 23 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 126 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.

• meni ojalle onkimaan (JR 13695) — parallel in Tyrvää
• korjaa luus (JR 12945) — parallel in Tyrvää
• varttia vailla kuus (JR 12929) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• öllö pöllö minä sinä (JR 13689) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• yli kirkon heitettiin (JR 16720) — parallel in Tammela
• nauriita kuin lautasia (SKVR X2 5572.) — parallel in Tammela
• huis sika metsän (JR 12933) — parallel in Uskela
• kävelin kerran kaupungin torilla (JR 12932) — parallel in Uskela
• minä juoksen juuren alle (SKVR X1 1379.) — parallel in Narvusi
• menen puita purkamaan (SKVR X1 1379.) — parallel in Narvusi