Loimaa

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 115 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 107 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.

• kirjas katos karjastani (SKVR X1 247.) — parallel in Pöytyä
• yli meren mennäkseni (SKVR X1 1543.) — parallel in Pöytyä
• kolmas konttipuali (SKVR X1 1628.) — parallel in Tyrvää
• toinen tonkeli (SKVR X1 1628.) — parallel in Tyrvää
• läpi polven (JR 33871) — parallel in Tammela
• viires villahattu (SKVR X1 1628.) — parallel in Tammela
• tupakkikultaa kans (JR 13083) — parallel in Alastaro
• hianoja hamppuja (JR 13083) — parallel in Alastaro
• ihmisen ihoon (SKVR X1 2249.) — parallel in Narvusi
• ulvina uuteen kylään (SKVR X1 1466.) — parallel in Narvusi