Pielisjärvi

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 702 poems collected in this place, 131 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 571 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.

• tyttäriä tyhmempiä (JR 29562) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tulla tuomarin tupahan (JR 84983) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• pahalla pajupurolla (SKVR VII2 2084.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• alla taivosen yheksän (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1416.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• pure puuta syö käpyä (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3485.) — parallel in Suistamo
• nuku nurmella hyvällä (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3957 b.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ja pantu paperin päällä (JR 84612) — parallel in Narvusi
• kuhu saatan saalihini (SKVR VII3 loitsut 1282.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tuopi tuoresta kaloo (SKVR VII3 3823.) — parallel in Nurmes
• isä illalla tulloo (SKVR VII3 3823.) — parallel in Nurmes