Parikkala

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 541 poems collected in this place, 189 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 352 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• herran hengellä hyvällä (JR 02154) — parallel in Suistamo
• yli kuuven kirkkokunnan (SKVR XIII3 9986.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kun et itke itkettäissä (SKVR XIII2 4682.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mustakulma ja koria (SKVR XIII3 7277.) — parallel in Narvusi
• niinkuin mie katala kasvoin (SKVR XIII3 8102.) — parallel in Lempaala
• ei ne kasva kaikki lapset (SKVR XIII3 8102.) — parallel in Lempaala
• souva souva soutajani (SKVR XIII1 1356.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sanan voimalla jumalan (JR 02154) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tuo himottu tuo haluttu (JR 04303) — parallel in Vuole
• peäskyläinen päivälintu (SKVR XIII1 731.) — parallel in Vuole