Kittilä

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 621 poems collected in this place, 42 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 579 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.

• polvehen pojan pätösen (JR 02007) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sekä meni jotta joutui (JR 02007) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• siellä huusi huikeasti (SKVR XII2 6143.) — parallel in Narvusi
• maan mato musta mato (SKVR XII2 5111.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pani nuoret soutamahan (JR 02007) — parallel in Suistamo
• kokonaista kolme vuotta (JR 02008) — parallel in Suistamo
• jalommatki jaksettuna (JR 02007) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tuonne kylmähän kylähän (JR 02007) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kolmannessa koikelossa (SKVR XII2 8136.) — parallel in Sodankylä
• älä vihaa lastas (SKVR XII2 5804.) — parallel in Sodankylä