Kirvu

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 669 poems collected in this place, 332 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 337 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: as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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 hieno hiekkapelto (SKVR XIII2 5628.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• lyö kurikal kumpastakkii (SKVR XIII4 11409.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• kangas kultane kumisi (SKVR XIII3 9992.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kävin kukkana kujalla (SKVR XIII4 10907.) — parallel in Narvusi
• vesi tippuu vempeleestä (JR 20865) — parallel in Sakkola
• jos mie saisi joute olla (JR 20865) — parallel in Sakkola
• älä tule tuomaan päivän (JR 29894) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• tuo marjoi tullessais (JR 29895) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• mehiläinen mettä kanna (SKVR XIII3 7995.) — parallel in Lempaala
• löysin linnun pesän (SKVR XIII4 11829.) — parallel in Lempaala