Nurmijärvi

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 105 poems collected in this place, 26 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 79 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.

• anna minulle vihta (SKVR XIV 1521.) — parallel in Loppi
• kana vettä kantamaan (SKVR XIV 1520.) — parallel in Loppi
• peukalo putti (JR 49914) — parallel in Uskela
• neljä yksi kaksi kolme ja neljä (JR 35126) — parallel in Uskela
• kävelin kerran kaupunkin torilla (JR 47962) — parallel in Hattula
• siäl on kaksi karjalasta (JR 47946) — parallel in Hattula
• pom pom porovatta (JR 47958) — parallel in Vihti
• susi tuli vastaan (JR 35125) — parallel in Vihti
• mies kolahti metsän pohjaan (JR 12083) — parallel in Hausjärvi
• kissan nimi kirnau (JR 08120) — parallel in Hausjärvi