Luhanka

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 110 poems collected in this place, 30 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 80 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.

• kana maijon lämmittää (SKVR IX1 883.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• luulit puuta purrehes (SKVR IX3 678.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• hevosella hiirikolla (SKVR IX3 774.) — parallel in Narvusi
• sinistä ja punasta (JR 17036) — parallel in Narvusi
• puun juuren pujottaja (SKVR IX3 678.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pakkanen pakkanen puhurin poika (SKVR IX3 173.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ysikin tosikin toukon loukon (JR 05676) — parallel in Alatornio
• pappilan pieni sokerirotta (JR 05675) — parallel in Alatornio
• oravia käpäliä heilaa meilaa (JR 17033) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• suaresta niemee (JR 17043) — parallel in Ilomantsi