Lempaala

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 3,389 poems collected in this place, 1,004 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 2,385 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.

• mitä myö sisot sinellä (JR 00449) — parallel in Vuole
• kelta heinällä kälykset (JR 00449) — parallel in Vuole
• keltaheinähän kälykset (JR 00449) — parallel in Sakkola
• mataroilla morsiamet (JR 00449) — parallel in Sakkola
• kenen morsian mokoma (SKVR V2 1453.) — parallel in Narvusi
• takoi seppä taksutteli (SKVR V1 142.) — parallel in Narvusi
• petäjä perehinensä (SKVR V2 2452.) — parallel in Rautu
• hiiren poika naitettihin (SKVR V2 2452.) — parallel in Rautu
• aina saunassa assuu (JR 01098) — parallel in Metsäpirtti
• varsoi valitsemaan (JR 01098) — parallel in Metsäpirtti