Pohjois-Karjala

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 218 poems collected in this place, 78 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 140 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.

• villaset sinun vihasi (SKVR XV 658.) — parallel in Suistamo
• tehty tetrimättähästä (SKVR XV 657.) — parallel in Suistamo
• likasille liistehille (SKVR VII2 2543.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• saatu saksan kaupungista (SKVR XV 410.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• parkasi pahan sävelen (SKVR XV 410.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• rakehilla rautasilla (SKVR VII5 loitsut 4501.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• metsän kultanen kuningas (SKVR VII5 loitsut 3472.) — parallel in Narvusi
• poika potkii povessa (JR 36919) — parallel in Narvusi
• rakeilla rautasilla (JR 36910) — parallel in Kitee
• asunnonkaan himolla (JR 36907) — parallel in Kitee