Liperi

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 540 poems collected in this place, 143 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 397 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.

• poikki pellon porsahatki (SKVR VII2 2557.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• piinan paikkaan pahaan (JR 00404) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tuletko sinä minulle (JR 04063) — parallel in Suistamo
• ukko uunilta putosi (SKVR XV 659.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ylitse meren yheksän (SKVR VII4 loitsut 2561.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• meripuolen kymmenettä (SKVR VII4 loitsut 2561.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• teräksestä tietin kengät (SKVR VII2 2312.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kättä viljalta vihaista (SKVR VII2 1318.) — parallel in Narvusi
• veri tippu vempelestä (SKVR VII2 1445.) — parallel in Lempaala
• laulajan väki väsyypi (SKVR VII2 2982.) — parallel in Lempaala