Kontiolahti

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 551 poems collected in this place, 123 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 428 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.

• herran hengellä hyvällä (SKVR VII3 loitsut 513.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• en puhu suulla omalla suulla (SKVR VII3 loitsut 513.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• jopa löysin härkäni (SKVR VII2 3183.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kino ilikiän kiasta (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1133.) — parallel in Suistamo
• emon tuoman ruumihille (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1125.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kyllä sun sukus tiijän (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1130.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• lyö kurikalla kumpastaa (JR 07102) — parallel in Nurmes
• suolamarkasta matikka (SKVR VII3 4021.) — parallel in Nurmes
• otti koivusen korennon (SKVR VII2 2901.) — parallel in Narvusi
• alla päin pahoilla mielin (JR 85072) — parallel in Narvusi