Konginkangas

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 48 poems collected in this place, 5 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 43 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.

• ettei ennen eäntä peästä (SKVR IX4 1508.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• häntäs alla vakkasessas (SKVR IX2 62.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• pistä miekkasi mereen (SKVR IX4 77.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• seiso kun miekka meressä seisoo (SKVR IX4 871.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kylmä soita kylmä maita (SKVR IX4 201.) — parallel in Suistamo
• silmät liinan siemenistä (SKVR IX4 678.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pistä miekkas mereen (SKVR IX4 78.) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• minä järveen (SKVR IX4 1609.) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• hus sika mehtään (SKVR IX2 61.) — parallel in Pihtipudas
• vesi vanhin veljeksistä (SKVR IX2 441.) — parallel in Pihtipudas