Repola

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 670 poems collected in this place, 513 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 157 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.

• pitäjässä vuokkiniemen (JR 03989) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kajanista kaupparenki (JR 03989) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mies merestä näyttelekse (JR 02421) — parallel in Suistamo
• nogiselta nuotivolta (SKVR II 957.) — parallel in Suistamo
• puolel on punakeränen (SKVR II 543.) — parallel in Uhtua
• veijo tuli vesi läikky (SKVR II 539.) — parallel in Uhtua
• siell oli sinikeräne (SKVR II 698 b).) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• jouten synnyin jouten kasvoin (SKVR II 136a).) — parallel in Kontokki
• sanon saksan sormukseksi (JR 02619) — parallel in Kontokki
• oravaisen olkaluista (JR 02619) — parallel in Ilomantsi