Kontokki

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 1,290 poems collected in this place, 1,140 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 150 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.

• varsin viini vihkivaate (SKVR XV 420.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• olen oiva ompelija (JR 02626) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• eikä varsin vasta liene (SKVR I4 498.) — parallel in Uhtua
• vanhan akan vakkasesta (SKVR I3 1894.) — parallel in Uhtua
• tuumatti ikuni tuuma (JR 02626) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• venäläistä verraksehe (JR 02626) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• kuin on kuullet karjan kellon (SKVR I4 1365.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kultainen metsän kuningas (SKVR I4 1.) — parallel in Suistamo
• jouten synnyin jouten kasvoin (JR 02627) — parallel in Repola
• sano saksan sormukseksi (JR 18432) — parallel in Repola