Rautjärvi

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 182 poems collected in this place, 103 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 79 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.

• korpilta nenän kopannut (SKVR XIII2 4701.) — parallel in Narvusi
• varikselta varren saanut (SKVR XIII2 4701.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kun on vähä varaa (SKVR XIII1 668.) — parallel in Suistamo
• hywä sisko rakas sisko (JR 07278) — parallel in Suistamo
• vielä viinan juomattomat (SKVR XIII3 9989.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• nuoret miehet naimattomat (SKVR XIII1 575.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ei ole rikas aina rikas (JR 07275) — parallel in Lempaala
• etkä yksin jättänyt (JR 07272) — parallel in Lempaala
• eikä tietä kellarihin (SKVR XIII3 7544.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• katkesi kasin tarina (JR 53563) — parallel in Ilomantsi