Ruokolahti

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 183 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 161 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.

• mitä otti palkaksensa (SKVR VI2 6430.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kärsä kuutta kirvesvartta (SKVR VI2 6430.) — parallel in Narvusi
• nälkä tuli ja tahtoin syötä (JR 26494) — parallel in Kivennapa
• reki rautainen ramisi (SKVR VI2 6491.) — parallel in Kivennapa
• kansa laiska kiertolaine (JR 26493) — parallel in Sakkola
• ahve arka perse märkä (SKVR VI2 7443.) — parallel in Sakkola
• kosso kasvoi kauhiaksi (SKVR VI2 6430.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• veriveitsi taivahasta (JR 18497) — parallel in Rautu
• tulevaks vuuveks (JR 50121) — parallel in Lempaala
• karhun on maksat kainalossa (SKVR VI1 746.) — parallel in Lempaala