Kiimaisjärvi

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 424 poems collected in this place, 286 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 138 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). 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.

• peällä taivosen yheksän (JR 02628) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• välkytteli väinämöinen (JR 02628) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kylän paras on patvaskana (SKVR I3 1669.) — parallel in Uhtua
• aittaset alentelekse (SKVR I3 1669.) — parallel in Uhtua
• tuumatti ikuni tuuma (JR 02629) — parallel in Kontokki
• venäläistä verraksehe (JR 02629) — parallel in Kontokki
• mies merestä näyttelekse (SKVR I4 810 a).) — parallel in Repola
• siell oli sinikeränen (JR 02628) — parallel in Repola
• keänty kämmenin merehe (SKVR I1 27.) — parallel in Suistamo
• läbi lämbumien lihojen (SKVR I1 9 a).) — parallel in Suistamo