Oulanka

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 152 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 114 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.

• liitelekse luatelekse (SKVR I3 1654.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kattselekse kiäntelekse (SKVR I3 1654.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• niinkuin tuores tuomen latva (SKVR I3 1741.) — parallel in Uhtua
• armo sana antamine (SKVR I3 1741.) — parallel in Uhtua
• kainalovihkon kantajaist (SKVR I3 1741.) — parallel in Kiestinki
• alemma kumartamini (SKVR I3 1739.) — parallel in Kiestinki
• pois pojat ulos urohot (SKVR I3 1655.) — parallel in Pistojärvi
• etkä sintsin siivoutta (SKVR I3 1656.) — parallel in Pistojärvi
• oma veikko heittäminen (SKVR I3 1741.) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• mistä tiesit teltamoisen (SKVR I3 1655.) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi