Laukaa

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 117 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 100 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.

• harakka hevosen sukkii (SKVR IX2 78.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• pienet lintuset lusikat tuo (SKVR IX2 78.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• polosella pohjanmoalla (SKVR IX2 323.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kapalossa kannettiin (JR 39440) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• et sä silloin ollut suuri (SKVR IX4 830.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kivijärven kirkonkello (JR 69450) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• lapih lasten tanterilla (SKVR IX4 638.) — parallel in Suistamo
• terve maa ja terve mantere (JR 18776) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuli ei polta tuttujaan (JR 69433) — parallel in Narvusi
• luulit puuta purrees (JR 69435) — parallel in Narvusi