Lempäälä

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 160 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 121 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.

• hyvä renki kaunis renki (JR 09129) — parallel in Vesilahti
• punasella pussosella (JR 09124) — parallel in Vesilahti
• sinisellä säkkisellä (JR 09124) — parallel in Tyrvää
• ei ollu saunassa vettä (JR 09129) — parallel in Tyrvää
• miehet kultamiekoissansa (JR 32621) — parallel in Karkku
• naulat laskea satulat (JR 32621) — parallel in Karkku
• hyvä kaivo kaunis kaivo (JR 09129) — parallel in Hattula
• hyvä suutari kaunis suutari (JR 09129) — parallel in Hattula
• mistäs tunnet klavus kurjen (JR 32634) — parallel in Tottijärvi
• eelin kleelin klot (JR 20935) — parallel in Tottijärvi