Metsäsuomalaisten alue

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 15 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 7 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.

• jesuxen byhän nimen (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 162.) — parallel in Etelä-Savo
• käy näillä mättäillä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 162.) — parallel in Etelä-Savo
• jeesus kirkkoon ajaa (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 123.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pahoillen paranneheksi (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 123.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kivisellä kirkkoitiellä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 123.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• leukaien leviemätä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 314.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• lietoon mereen (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 202.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kipeillen voiteeksi (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 162.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• mehiläinen pieni lintu (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 123.) — parallel in Soikkola
• tuo kipeillen voiteheksi (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 123.) — parallel in Narvusi