Metsäpirtti

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,157 poems collected in this place, 1,386 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 771 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• aina saunassa assuu (SKVR XIII1 776.) — parallel in Lempaala
• varsoi valitsemaa (SKVR XIII1 778.) — parallel in Lempaala
• helmat hyyssä polvet jäässä (SKVR XIII3 8739.) — parallel in Vuole
• karahutti kallioo (SKVR XIII4 10384.) — parallel in Vuole
• vävy väinö uusi vieras (SKVR XIII2 3627.) — parallel in Sakkola
• luulin tuulen tuulevaksi (SKVR XIII2 3537.) — parallel in Sakkola
• peltoa pesiäksensä (JR 33256) — parallel in Rautu
• reki rautanen ramaji (JR 32242) — parallel in Rautu
• mänin pilven piirtä myöten (SKVR XIII1 1283.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tietäjäinen tiksutteli (SKVR XIII1 302.) — parallel in Narvusi