Mouhijärvi

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 464 poems collected in this place, 214 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 250 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.

• kettu neuvo poikiansa (JR 07267) — parallel in Tyrvää
• salin ovet avattiin (JR 07266) — parallel in Tyrvää
• kuulin käen kukkuvan (JR 36700) — parallel in Narvusi
• mitä itket neitsyseni (SKVR X1 96.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pikku kirves kelkasesa (JR 36729) — parallel in Tammela
• kello kaks (JR 19977) — parallel in Tammela
• oravia käpäliä (JR 19919) — parallel in Uskela
• takaperin tullakseni (JR 19929) — parallel in Uskela
• vanhan mummon vakkasesta (JR 36650) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sen vesi sammutti (JR 36787) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi