Rukajärvi

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 56 poems collected in this place, 25 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 31 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.

• anni tyttö ainut neiti (SKVR II 390.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• koivussa tulini kokko (SKVR II 1101.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• palavoja poaderoja (SKVR II 226.) — parallel in Repola
• toine kohti koiliselda (SKVR II 226.) — parallel in Repola
• vuaran alla voivotteli (SKVR II 1106.) — parallel in Kontokki
• miekkojana mittelemmä (SKVR II 226.) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• anni tuttö ainut neidi (SKVR II 1105.) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• istu likka kammiossa (SKVR II 312.) — parallel in Suistamo
• itkee ja huojuu j n e (SKVR II 312.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kantakengän katselussa (SKVR II 390.) — parallel in Uhtua