Piippola

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 238 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 216 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.

• kivisellä kirkkotiellä (SKVR XII2 5894.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• annan paijan palttinaisen (SKVR XII1 159.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• maito kaatui kalliolle (JR 36824) — parallel in Suistamo
• koivu korven notkelmasta (SKVR XII2 6399.) — parallel in Suistamo
• palkkalainen painatteli (SKVR XII1 4130.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• palkkalaisen painamahan (SKVR XII1 4130.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• haavan kuorta haukkaa (JR 20803) — parallel in Narvusi
• metän kultanen kuningas (SKVR XII2 6542.) — parallel in Narvusi
• seitsemeksi seipähäksi (SKVR XII1 1350.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• tuonne kirkon kammarihin (JR 42763) — parallel in Suomussalmi