Porajärvi

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 644 poems collected in this place, 564 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 80 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.

• tuuti tuuti lasta tuomariksi (SKVR II 580.) — parallel in Suistamo
• syyä miehen nälkähisen (SKVR II 941.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ylitsi meren yheksän (SKVR II 684.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mänes tuonne kunne käsken (SKVR II 625 a).) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• melan vaskizen varah (SKVR II 59.) — parallel in Repola
• teräksizildä teloilda (SKVR II 59.) — parallel in Repola
• vein isännät vein emännät (SKVR II 939.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• meren vettä juomaa (SKVR II 577.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• pani kultia tulehen (SKVR II 108.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• entinen elättipentu (SKVR II 288.) — parallel in Ilomantsi