Rautu

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,272 poems collected in this place, 1,681 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 591 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• keltaheinähän kälykset (SKVR XIII1 2650.) — parallel in Lempaala
• petäjä perehinensä (JR 00448) — parallel in Lempaala
• tek koakun kalliost (JR 35737) — parallel in Vuole
• hiiren poika naitettihin (JR 00448) — parallel in Vuole
• papin pantui parrii (SKVR XIII4 10888.) — parallel in Sakkola
• kiitos kaunoisen jumalan (SKVR XIII2 3035.) — parallel in Sakkola
• peltoa pesiäksensä (JR 03402) — parallel in Metsäpirtti
• reki rautanen ramaji (JR 03402) — parallel in Metsäpirtti
• turun tyttö saaren neito (SKVR XIII1 811.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kenen morsian mokoma (SKVR XIII1 1285.) — parallel in Narvusi