Kuusamo

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 460 poems collected in this place, 226 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 234 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.

• siitä tiesi teltamoini (SKVR XII2 8175.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tulen tuiki polttamilla (JR 27082) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• onko lasta kätkyessä (JR 71774) — parallel in Suistamo
• sopikoohon luojan sormet (JR 27080) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuollako tehnen tuttavuutta (JR 42725) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• kun sinä suosta sotkettiin (SKVR XII2 8502.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• kalamies minulle kaloja (JR 19187) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• siihen suonet solmiele (SKVR XII2 5086.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• yksi käsi kinnassettu (SKVR XII2 8175.) — parallel in Narvusi
• isä istuu pöyvän päässä (SKVR XII1 1052.) — parallel in Narvusi