Pälkjärvi

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 164 poems collected in this place, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 155 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.

• tii tii tikanpoika (SKVR VII2 3649.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tule uniukko meille (JR 32579) — parallel in Suistamo
• laske verkkosi vetehen (SKVR VII3 loitsut 710.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• mikä tällä lapsella lienöön (SKVR VII2 3708.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• toisin ennen tuulet tuuli (SKVR VII3 loitsut 433.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• meren lumme luikuttelen meren (JR 20849) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• väkärautoo viäntämään (JR 27101) — parallel in Kitee
• perse märkä (JR 27100) — parallel in Kitee
• kipo kapo kaunikki (SKVR VII3 3910.) — parallel in Impilahti
• tätilässä on musta lehmä muurikki (SKVR VII3 3911.) — parallel in Impilahti