Petsamo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

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Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 6 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 4 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.

• mitä poltat (JR 52555) — parallel in Maaninka
• joko paloi (JR 52555) — parallel in Maaninka
• sintua poltan (JR 52555) — parallel in Narvusi
• hospot pomoloi (JR 51945) — parallel in Korpiselkä
• borisgleb ja triihvon anna minulle terveyttä (JR 51945) — parallel in Pyhäranta