Oulainen

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 19 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 17 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.

• se on vaskista valettu (SKVR XII2 5183.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mene sinne mistä tulit (JR 09853) — parallel in Narvusi
• pantu äimän kärkösistä (SKVR XII2 6382.) — parallel in Puolanka
• tehty suosta tehty maasta (SKVR XII2 6382.) — parallel in Puolanka
• mesi heitä kielestäsi (SKVR XII2 5183.) — parallel in Sotkamo
• rukoili nöyrällä muotoa (JR 18745) — parallel in Sotkamo
• pakkanen puhurin poika (SKVR XII1 3925.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kylmää maita kylmää soita (SKVR XII1 3925.) — parallel in Suistamo
• haavoille paranteheksi (SKVR XII2 5183.) — parallel in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
• tule työsi tuntemahan (SKVR XII2 5183.) — parallel in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa