Sääksmäki

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 325 poems collected in this place, 46 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 279 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.

• tuu tuu tuu tupakkirullaa (SKVR IX1 1406.) — parallel in Tammela
• housut tehtiin makkarasta (JR 49849) — parallel in Tammela
• vesi sammutti (JR 47390) — parallel in Narvusi
• pikarit pinona vierit (SKVR IX1 77.) — parallel in Narvusi
• joka koiran juostavakſi (SKVR IX1 99.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• vihantaasta mättähästä (SKVR IX1 490.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• pappilan sauhua pakoon (JR 10251) — parallel in Hattula
• tuu tuu tuupakkirulla (JR 10251) — parallel in Hattula
• tuli poltti (JR 47390) — parallel in Soikkola
• munavoita vehnästä (JR 47389) — parallel in Ilomantsi