Petäjävesi

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 76 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 73 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.

• kahen lukon takana (SKVR IX2 253.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tule uni uunin peältä (SKVR IX2 140.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kauniin kanervan päästä (SKVR IX2 54.) — parallel in Narvusi
• haapaa haukannees (SKVR IX4 670.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pisemmän kuin seinähirren (SKVR IX2 252.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sanoi äiti (JR 82729) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• alta aivan tuntumattomaksi (SKVR IX4 759.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuuvin lasta turvakseni (SKVR IX2 188.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ilon kaikeksi ijäksi (JR 82218) — parallel in Lempaala
• paimenpoika nauroi (SKVR IX2 224.) — parallel in Lempaala