Pieksämäki

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 346 poems collected in this place, 93 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 253 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.

• missäs sinun pesäs on (JR 53636) — parallel in Suistamo
• petäjästä pöyryhännä (SKVR VI2 6488.) — parallel in Suistamo
• katajaisen kangen kansa (JR 09631) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kolomella kokonsulalla (JR 53937) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kesän siästi vuohen voita (JR 09632) — parallel in Narvusi
• mato on musta maanalainen (SKVR VI1 3916.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pimeähän pohjolaan (SKVR VI2 4068.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• käärmehisen käännättelen (SKVR VI1 3269.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kangasta myöten kaputella (SKVR VI1 1926.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• hieno hiekka pellon paikka (SKVR VI1 1510.) — parallel in Saarijärvi