Kivennapa

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,081 poems collected in this place, 1,229 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 852 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. 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.

• nuku nurmelle hyvälle (JR 59390) — parallel in Sakkola
• laitoin rengit etsimääne (JR 61086) — parallel in Sakkola
• mitä sie miust tahot (JR 02831) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• et sie minnuu hyljänny (JR 02831) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• sika suureksi sikisi (JR 75175) — parallel in Rautu
• kesät voilla vehnasella (JR 75445) — parallel in Rautu
• uhrini minä annan (JR 75405) — parallel in Narvusi
• konsa oikein otava (SKVR XIII2 4333.) — parallel in Narvusi
• hei rasva rahkehen nenästä (JR 75026) — parallel in Lempaala
• kangas kultainen kumisi (JR 48828) — parallel in Koivisto