Mänttä

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 113 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 93 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.

• menin sitten kapakkaan (JR 42053) — parallel in Alatornio
• kävelin pitkin katuja (JR 42053) — parallel in Alatornio
• mene tästä portista pois (SKVR X1 1634 δ.) — parallel in Leppävirta
• mene tästä portista poi (SKVR X1 1634 α.) — parallel in Leppävirta
• mitkä niiden nimet oli (SKVR X1 1634 α.) — parallel in Hämeenlinna
• yksi tynnyri ruutia täynnä (JR 42105) — parallel in Hämeenlinna
• takareki tauluun (JR 16832) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• voi voi sentään kuinka monta kertaa (JR 42096) — parallel in Tampere
• laske lasta lappeenrantaan (JR 47555) — parallel in Tampere
• onko sauna lämmintä (SKVR X1 1756 α.) — parallel in Uskela