Kymi

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 444 poems collected in this place, 64 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 380 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.

• lännen kolkalta lähetti (JR 09405) — parallel in Narvusi
• kurki lintujen kuningas (SKVR XIV 44.) — parallel in Narvusi
• keskiviikko ei ole kenenkään työpäivä (SKVR XIV 195.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• turvekatto tuvan päällä (SKVR XIV 795.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kesät voilla vehnäsellä (JR 09401) — parallel in Suistamo
• silmät siunas jumala (SKVR XIV 2209.) — parallel in Suistamo
• läksi ukko tappamahan (JR 09401) — parallel in Kivennapa
• otti pieniä sikoja kirjavia porsahia (JR 09401) — parallel in Kivennapa
• läpi pellon naapuriin (JR 09436) — parallel in Uskela
• tallukoita kuusi (JR 09426) — parallel in Uskela