Lapinjärvi

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 104 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 84 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.

• mistäs tiesit tänne tulla (SKVR XIV 865.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• onka pannu uus (JR 15372) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• mitä siällä humpussa (SKVR XIV 1505.) — parallel in Iitti
• huis sika humppuh (SKVR XIV 1505.) — parallel in Iitti
• piu pau papin kellot (SKVR XIV 1320.) — parallel in Myrskylä
• kengät annoin mamselille (SKVR XIV 1613.) — parallel in Myrskylä
• itki ja huokas (SKVR XIV 51.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mitäs nostat (SKVR XIV 2358.) — parallel in Narvusi
• joutseneni ylpeä (SKVR XIV 2044.) — parallel in Uskela
• poikiani pesemästä (SKVR XIV 2044.) — parallel in Uskela