Pohjois-Pohjanmaa

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 818 poems collected in this place, 45 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 773 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.

• vaivasesta vartalosta (SKVR XII2 5637.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mänes tuonne kunne käsken (SKVR XII2 6362.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sie kuuhut jumalan luoma (JR 85504) — parallel in Uhtua
• jouluna jumala synty (JR 85504) — parallel in Uhtua
• oven suussa alla orren (JR 85518) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• vipunsa virittämästä (SKVR XII1 73.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• työnnä lehmäni leholle (SKVR XII2 6770.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kolme vuotta (JR 85494) — parallel in Suistamo
• tuonet kommilla käteheh (JR 85499) — parallel in Kontokki
• jouten synnyn jouten kasvoin (JR 85499) — parallel in Kontokki