Ropsu

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 63 poems collected in this place, 61 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 2 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.

• ko et anna munnaa (JR 77759) — parallel in Narvusi
• pane lapsen silmät kiin (JR 77851) — parallel in Narvusi
• kuin monta urpaa (JR 77757) — parallel in Metsäpirtti
• mato musta muanalaine (JR 77688) — parallel in Metsäpirtti
• tule uniukko meil (JR 77851) — parallel in Rautu
• jeesus ajoi tietä myöten (JR 77682) — parallel in Rautu
• puu jyräht mua täräht (JR 77705) — parallel in Lempaala
• et sie puuta purrutkaa (JR 77695) — parallel in Lempaala
• pajuuniintä panneheis (JR 77688) — parallel in Sakkola
• pajun niint et pannutkaa (JR 77695) — parallel in Vuole