Korpiselkä

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

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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 1,191 poems collected in this place, 222 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 969 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• kahen on kolmen koiran kanssa (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3255.) — parallel in Suistamo
• lähtin miehissä metsälle (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3450.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ilon lyyen muille maille (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3261.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• taattos koiss on kuolemassa (SKVR VII1 919.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• villa viisi hammastasi (JR 02307) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• villa suusi villa peäsi (JR 02307) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tuolta anni annettihin (SKVR VII1 471.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• liperistä liinaharjan (SKVR VII2 2638.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tuota kaikki katselevat (JR 60515) — parallel in Narvusi
• turun tyttönen saaren neito (JR 60515) — parallel in Narvusi