Lapinlahti

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 103 poems collected in this place, 24 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 79 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.

• mäne tuonne jonne käsken (SKVR VI2 4172.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ukko uunilta urahti (SKVR VI1 3440.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• aa aa aholla (JR 07091) — parallel in Suistamo
• siellä on lapset ristimättä (SKVR VI2 6026.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ja kiikutteli lasta (JR 07086) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kissa hyppäs kiikun päälle (JR 07086) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kukkakuusen alla (JR 07088) — parallel in Kontokki
• lampaan lapa kainalossa (JR 07092) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• ampiainen angervoinen (JR 20880) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• polvesta pyhän urohon (SKVR VI1 50.) — parallel in Sotkamo