Kurikka

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 276 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 254 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.

• isoon kiven juurehen (JR 52613) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• seisov veri tyystyv veri (SKVR XI 1646.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• härkä sen joi (SKVR XI 279.) — parallel in Laihia
• kirves sen tappoo (SKVR XI 279.) — parallel in Laihia
• ehtoo kaunis kirkas tähti (JR 50880) — parallel in Teuva
• kukas muu kun oma armas (JR 50880) — parallel in Teuva
• venehessä vuotavassa (JR 03223) — parallel in Narvusi
• olin minä kolmessa kovassa (JR 03223) — parallel in Narvusi
• alta tuntumattomaksi (SKVR XI 1501.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• hampaat ikenihisi (SKVR XI 2062.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi