Rantsila

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 323 poems collected in this place, 162 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 161 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.

• kun suosta sotkettiin (JR 09947) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• pienten peittojen sisässä (JR 46504) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• piiskunen pääskynen (JR 46482) — parallel in Narvusi
• mato musta maanalainen (JR 09953) — parallel in Narvusi
• yksi lypsi mustan maion (JR 09947) — parallel in Suistamo
• annatko akka tyttäres (JR 41216) — parallel in Suistamo
• kust on liikkunna lihaa (JR 09943) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• purit ihmisen ihohon (JR 39814) — parallel in Soikkola
• otavaista oppinasi (JR 39708) — parallel in Soikkola
• sööker kööker (JR 26105) — parallel in Alatornio