Pyhäjoki

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 79 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 76 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.

• varpaasta väinämöisen (SKVR XII1 39.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• killin poika porstuassa (JR 66950) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kuus muna uusi (JR 73806) — parallel in Narvusi
• vesilintu veessä (SKVR XII1 791.) — parallel in Narvusi
• varttia vailla kuus (JR 47439) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kana maion lämmittää (SKVR XII1 1291.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tarttu kurkkuun ja kuoli (JR 61500) — parallel in Alatornio
• väsy väsy västäräkki (JR 32411) — parallel in Alatornio
• kyllä herra herättääpi (SKVR XII1 692.) — parallel in Kemi
• tyttölapsen liiatenkin (JR 32398) — parallel in Suistamo