Kortesjärvi

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 88 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 68 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.

• merta puolen kymmenettä (SKVR XI 600.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuonen toukka karvallinen (SKVR XI 1428.) — parallel in Suistamo
• paju puista vanhin (SKVR XI 1877.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• lennä tuonne kunnet käsken (SKVR XI 600.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• toukka tuonen karvainen (SKVR XI 1427.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tule tänne (SKVR XI 1171.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• mato musta maan alainen (SKVR XI 1324.) — parallel in Narvusi
• sormella nimettömällä (SKVR XI 1083.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kirjavan kiven takainen (SKVR XI 1428.) — parallel in Soikkola
• pääldä tundumattomaksi (SKVR XI 600.) — parallel in Soikkola