Muolaa

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 872 poems collected in this place, 611 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 261 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.

• nuku nuku mie nukutan (JR 05647) — parallel in Kivennapa
• lipo lipo liinaa (JR 05559) — parallel in Kivennapa
• nuku nurmelle hyvälle (JR 05647) — parallel in Rautu
• pellon pientareen omena (JR 05647) — parallel in Rautu
• vanhat ämmät talkkunaa (JR 54314) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• joulu tulloo jongertaa (JR 54336) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• tuoreeks terveks (JR 25843) — parallel in Narvusi
• tulkaa leikkarit lekolle (JR 33307) — parallel in Narvusi
• papimuori penkkii (JR 19489) — parallel in Sakkola
• hongan oksalle hovisi (JR 19482) — parallel in Sakkola