Laihia

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 858 poems collected in this place, 190 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 668 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.

• mato musta maanalaan (SKVR XI 1401.) — parallel in Narvusi
• simakee maakee (JR 06988) — parallel in Narvusi
• narua hakkaan (SKVR XI 910.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• neitsyt maria sanoo (SKVR XI 1411.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• körö körö kirkhon (JR 06994) — parallel in Ylihärmä
• papin muarin penkhin (JR 06994) — parallel in Ylihärmä
• ota pois omas (SKVR XI 2707.) — parallel in Suistamo
• a a aa akana (JR 32332) — parallel in Suistamo
• vesa jesuksen vetämä (SKVR XI 1858.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mato musta maan alainen (SKVR XI 1398.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi