Länsipohja

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

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Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 4 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 3 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.

• ennenkun parhaasta miekastan (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Kerimäki
• millä minä sinun autan (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Kerimäki
• ennen luovun sisaresta (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Suistamo
• itkeepi ja huokaa (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Suistamo
• neito istuu kajuutassa (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Hyrynsalmi
• pitkin meren rantaa (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• itkee ja huokaa (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ennen luovun tyttärestäin (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• pane paras pantiksi (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• ennen luovun laivoistani (SKVR XII1 148.) — parallel in Narvusi