Pyhäntä

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 109 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 106 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.

• veren tielle telkkimeksi (SKVR XII1 4138.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kahen sormen mäntävällä (SKVR XII2 5244.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kytke kynnet karvoisi (SKVR XII2 6824.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• sotaväki syrjälleen (SKVR XII2 4735.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• susi juoksi suota myöte (SKVR XII1 3993.) — parallel in Suistamo
• ikkuiset pahantekijät (SKVR XII2 8089.) — parallel in Suistamo
• katkon karvakellukoita (SKVR XII2 7451.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• joilla minä puskuja puserran (SKVR XII2 6379.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• syömätöntä juomatonta (JR 29179) — parallel in Kontokki
• partahan palan purijan (SKVR XII1 4529.) — parallel in Kontokki