Lapua

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 189 poems collected in this place, 121 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 68 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.

• pussin perä (JR 67818) — parallel in Kauhava
• kinnarin koukku (JR 67818) — parallel in Kauhava
• puolukat punasia (JR 80871) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tääll on heinä hempeämpi (JR 80871) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• aita kaatui kahtahalle (JR 67814) — parallel in Laihia
• syylä palaa syylä palaa syylä palaa (SKVR XI 1036#1.) — parallel in Laihia
• körö körö kiärää (JR 39310) — parallel in Ylihärmä
• takareki tauluhun (JR 39308) — parallel in Ylihärmä
• ei ole löylyn löytämisestä (SKVR XI 1829.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tyyntyi ennen tyrjän koski (JR 80799) — parallel in Suistamo