Nurmes

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,574 poems collected in this place, 653 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 921 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). 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.

• impi kylmästä kylästä (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1411.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• vesi pitkäksi venytti (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1540.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• irvihampaille iloksi (JR 40157) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• näytin ihteni olevan (JR 40157) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ikuiset pahan tekijät (SKVR VII4 loitsut 1728.) — parallel in Suistamo
• aa aa allin lasta (JR 22493) — parallel in Suistamo
• muni kultasen munan (SKVR VII1 86.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mato musta maan alainen (JR 03504) — parallel in Narvusi
• näin loppui elo vaikia (JR 37849) — parallel in Sotkamo
• häät ne muuttui murheeksi (JR 37849) — parallel in Sotkamo