Pajala

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 96 poems collected in this place, 37 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 59 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.

• vittanvarpu virvottaa (JR 52243) — parallel in Kittilä
• synny synny para (JR 52065) — parallel in Kittilä
• kivele kipu (SKVR XII2 6354.) — parallel in Narvusi
• siotteli sinisellaŋkan (SKVR XII2 5955.) — parallel in Narvusi
• synny para synny para (JR 52170) — parallel in Alatornio
• kynttilästä mattiin (JR 52158) — parallel in Alatornio
• mene yheksän sylän syvytteen (JR 37828) — parallel in Suistamo
• mene yheksän syllän syvytteen (SKVR XII2 8684.) — parallel in Suistamo
• iesus siunakkohon (JR 52259) — parallel in Muonio
• nuku nuku nurmilintu (JR 52243) — parallel in Muonio