Östmark

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 179 poems collected in this place, 151 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 28 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.

• alla vuoren voivottel (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 6.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• elä kylmä kynsiä (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 148.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kuku kuku kultakäk (JR 31588) — parallel in Suistamo
• minä sanoin pojilleni (JR 31576) — parallel in Nyskoga
• minä laulan lammin lumpeet (JR 31576) — parallel in Nyskoga
• piispan pitkinä hihoina (JR 31576) — parallel in Narvusi
• koivuja kovjia puita (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 212.) — parallel in Narvusi
• toukka tuomen karvan (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 115.) — parallel in Juva
• kalliosta kaivettin (SKVR VII5 Metsäs. 176.) — parallel in Juva
• kielsi vanha väinämöinen (JR 31608) — parallel in Ilomantsi