Mäntyharju

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 606 poems collected in this place, 131 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 475 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.

• koottu kohmeloväestä (JR 00365) — parallel in Narvusi
• akka alkaapi sanoa (JR 00365) — parallel in Narvusi
• heinät kaikki karjaltaki (JR 00365) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• rauhoa rakentamahan (JR 00358) — parallel in Suistamo
• kyll olj kynsillä kokoa (SKVR VI2 5271.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tämä on juttu juomarista (JR 00365) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• vielä juopi viidennenki (JR 00365) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• valitella vaimo parka (JR 00365) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• vaan en saata vaiti olla (JR 00365) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• joulun pitkinä pyhinä (JR 00359) — parallel in Lempaala