Koivisto

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 1,391 poems collected in this place, 1,036 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 355 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.

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.

• kangas kultainen kumisi (JR 05848) — parallel in Kivennapa
• hepo juoksi tie helisi (JR 05848) — parallel in Kivennapa
• menin uutehen kylähän (SKVR XIII1 1440.) — parallel in Narvusi
• anoin atran kantajalta (SKVR XIII1 1440.) — parallel in Narvusi
• lehtoja levätäksensä (JR 05848) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• etsi maata maataksensa (JR 05848) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• käivät pipit käivät papit (JR 05848) — parallel in Sakkola
• sakian saven sekahan (JR 05848) — parallel in Sakkola
• porokellon poukahuksen (SKVR XIII4 10352.) — parallel in Lempaala
• kuulin kellon kilkahuksen (SKVR XIII4 10352.) — parallel in Lempaala