Rääkkylä

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 471 poems collected in this place, 118 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 353 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.

• heitä maito (JR 76249) — parallel in Suistamo
• nuku nuku nurmilintu nurmilintu (JR 08654) — parallel in Suistamo
• pajupehko parran piällä (SKVR VII1 345.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• polvehen pätösen pojan (SKVR VII1 295.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• herran hengellä hyvällä (SKVR VII4 loitsut 2559.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• en puhu omalla suulla (SKVR VII3 loitsut 824.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• aa hussa lulla (JR 08602) — parallel in Kitee
• teki tielle nauriin (JR 08599) — parallel in Kitee
• tahi mansikka mäellä (SKVR VII2 3112.) — parallel in Narvusi
• maita myöten matkustella (JR 08600) — parallel in Narvusi