Kiiminki

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 116 poems collected in this place, 12 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 104 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.

• siel on hyvä ollakses (SKVR XII2 8657.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• vaari vanha taivahainen (SKVR XII1 3715.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kuiva kuusi rautaoksa (SKVR XII1 4254.) — parallel in Suistamo
• juoppas viinana vihasi (SKVR XII2 8594.) — parallel in Suistamo
• minä olen vapaa siis (SKVR XII2 8342.) — parallel in Alatornio
• entten tentten (JR 50799) — parallel in Alatornio
• en hyppää en tanssaa (SKVR XII1 2294.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• nyt hyppään nyt tanssaan (SKVR XII1 2290.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• kultakansi kaivon päällä (SKVR XII1 1375.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• yksinäisen ympärille (SKVR XII1 3720.) — parallel in Ilomantsi