Reisjärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR 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 104 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 103 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.

• kylmä kylmiä kiviä (JR 29092) — parallel in Suistamo
• tukkeheksi tuiman reiän (SKVR XII1 4098.) — parallel in Suistamo
• rauta raukka (SKVR XII1 4095.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• rauta rukka rauta raukka (SKVR XII1 4094.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• polta puoli pohjan maata (JR 29332) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• lausu lapsi lattialla (SKVR XII1 16.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• elä riko ristittyä (SKVR XII2 4973.) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• isä pisti peukalonsa (SKVR XII1 4094.) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• elä kylmä kynsiäni (JR 29093) — parallel in Pihtipudas
• kylmä puita kylmä maita (JR 29093) — parallel in Pihtipudas