Nordkapp

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 54 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 37 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.

• lahet niemien nenästä (JR 52041) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• missä aita siinä ansa (SKVR XII2 8249.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• poika tulee turusta (SKVR XII1 778.) — parallel in Narvusi
• laivan lastun ottamatta (JR 52041) — parallel in Narvusi
• ota vihas pois (SKVR XII2 5845.) — parallel in Alatornio
• vittan varpu virvoittaa (SKVR XII1 686.) — parallel in Alatornio
• kukas sun käski turusta tulla (SKVR XII1 1131.) — parallel in Kemi
• lennäs lintu minkäs lennät (JR 52574) — parallel in Lempaala
• summeli maaka (JR 52045) — parallel in Lempaala
• jalommatkin jaksettu (JR 52041) — parallel in Suistamo