Ruotsin Ylitornio

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 16 poems collected in this place, 13 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 3 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.

• tekivät siellä paljon pahaa (SKVR XII2 8295.) — parallel in Alatornio
• kiveä kätken savea sotken (JR 52415) — parallel in Alatornio
• toukun loukun (SKVR XII2 8399.) — parallel in Kemi
• portten poosaa pois (SKVR XII2 8399.) — parallel in Kemi
• ja keikutteli lasta (JR 52380) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• matista kuukausi mariaan (JR 52159) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• yysiki toosiki (SKVR XII2 8399.) — parallel in Turtola
• synny synny para (JR 52169) — parallel in Kittilä
• perttulista viisi mikkeliin (JR 52159) — parallel in Kittilä
• menivät herrastalon ladon alle (SKVR XII2 8295.) — parallel in Veteli