Kuhmalahti

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 83 poems collected in this place, 25 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 58 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.

• pieni kirves kelkkasessa (JR 16341) — parallel in Narvusi
• kauniin kanervan päästä (JR 16341) — parallel in Narvusi
• sivuseinät sirkanluista (JR 16342) — parallel in Tyrvää
• tuu tuu tuutukainen (JR 16342) — parallel in Tyrvää
• oviseinä omenapuista (JR 16342) — parallel in Tammela
• mistä hiiri voita saa (JR 16341) — parallel in Tammela
• hurroo roikinaa (SKVR X2 5575.) — parallel in Sahalahti
• nuaren lehmän nunnusesta (SKVR X1 1400.) — parallel in Sahalahti
• josta keitin vellinkisen (JR 16340) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• söi vellin perheinensä (JR 16340) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi