Ranua

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 556 poems collected in this place, 444 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 112 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.

• kynttilästä mattiin (JR 80294) — parallel in Alatornio
• joulusta kynttilään (JR 80294) — parallel in Alatornio
• karahkasta kalaonni (JR 64134) — parallel in Keminmaa
• risukarhista karahka (JR 64134) — parallel in Keminmaa
• ei ole puita (JR 64136) — parallel in Karunki
• se vie kaikki kapineet (JR 64511) — parallel in Karunki
• tuppiruikka nahkatakki (JR 64325) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kissanpaskalla peitettiin (JR 64280) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• aatamin turkki on naulassa (JR 64154) — parallel in Kemi
• pukkia parrasta kiekuttaa (JR 40124) — parallel in Kemi