Muonio

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 273 poems collected in this place, 7 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 266 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.

• koivun oksa oikaisee (SKVR XII1 666.) — parallel in Alatornio
• yks kaks kolme neljä viis (JR 51650) — parallel in Alatornio
• nuku nuku nurmilintu (SKVR XII1 671.) — parallel in Kemi
• nuku nuku nurmen lintu (JR 57169) — parallel in Kemi
• voita ja päällistä kantaa (SKVR XII2 7177.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• kello kaks kanan laps (SKVR XII1 1218.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• tulvan tuopi tunturista (SKVR XII1 216.) — parallel in Turtola
• koivun oksa korottaa (JR 57134) — parallel in Turtola
• leppää viisi (JR 51758) — parallel in Kittilä
• laski hauin hartioille (JR 72300) — parallel in Kittilä