Polvijärvi

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 303 poems collected in this place, 126 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 177 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.

• suomen sotti (JR 50202) — parallel in Suistamo
• missäs on sinun pesäsi (JR 31533) — parallel in Suistamo
• punasella pussilla (JR 29791) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• helkyttele hietarinta (SKVR VII5 loitsut 4570.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• meren lumme luikuttelen (SKVR VII2 3545.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• herheläinen hiijen lintu (JR 42828) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• vippu vappu kellon rappu (SKVR VII3 4196.) — parallel in Nurmes
• kaiken kansan tuntematon (JR 45168) — parallel in Nurmes
• jos itken isoni veistä (JR 25593) — parallel in Narvusi
• se selvä sepän emäntä (JR 25593) — parallel in Narvusi