Paavola

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 173 poems collected in this place, 33 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 140 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.

• puun löyly kivosen lämmin (SKVR XII2 5328.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• hampahat ikenihissi (SKVR XII2 6929.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• puun juuren pujettelia (SKVR XII2 5033.) — parallel in Suistamo
• rauhan rakentamahan (SKVR XII2 5525.) — parallel in Suistamo
• vetelästä vellottiin (SKVR XII1 4195.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• salpa saunan karsinasta (SKVR XII1 4197.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• neitty maaria emonen (SKVR XII2 5327.) — parallel in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
• o ukko taivaan jumala (SKVR XII2 5035.) — parallel in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
• isä viisas viijenneksi (SKVR XII1 920.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• ei kivi kipuja itke (SKVR XII2 5595.) — parallel in Suomussalmi