Korpilahti

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 275 poems collected in this place, 7 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 268 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.

• mulle voi (SKVR IX3 1184.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• sulle vesi (SKVR IX3 1184.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• hyvä isä rakas isä (SKVR IX1 39.) — parallel in Suistamo
• mato musta maanalainen (SKVR IX3 709.) — parallel in Suistamo
• iloitkaamme riemuitkaamme (JR 28942) — parallel in Narvusi
• tuli poltti (SKVR IX1 2496.) — parallel in Narvusi
• anna rauha rahvahalle (SKVR IX3 1133.) — parallel in Soikkola
• mato musta maan alainen (JR 28949) — parallel in Soikkola
• toukka tuonen karvallinen (JR 28946) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• oviseinä osmon luista (SKVR IX3 172.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi