Kuhmo

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 373 poems collected in this place, 319 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 54 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.

• vaiko valtavanhempasi (SKVR XII2 5019.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• pois pojat ulos urohot (JR 03509) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• onkos talossa tässä (JR 02700) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• vesti vuorella venettä (JR 02700) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ajoa suhutteloo (JR 02700) — parallel in Suistamo
• kalliolla kalkutteli (JR 02700) — parallel in Suistamo
• nouse ylös (SKVR XII2 8507.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• suomen sukki (SKVR XII2 8282.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• ylemmäksi heinänjuurta (SKVR XII2 5013.) — parallel in Kontokki
• alimmaista tietä muöten (JR 02700) — parallel in Kontokki