Salmi

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 1,458 poems collected in this place, 1,046 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 412 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.

• tagaraivo tantereh (JR 04909) — parallel in Suistamo
• yli seitsemän pitäjän (JR 79372) — parallel in Suistamo
• yheksän meren ylize (JR 59850) — parallel in Suojärvi
• puolen mertu kymmenettä (SKVR VII5 loitsut 4218.) — parallel in Suojärvi
• rautasih rahkehih (JR 45275) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ei ole valmis valvattine (SKVR VII1 376.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• miulle miehelle hyvälle (SKVR VII2 3081.) — parallel in Narvusi
• minkä luinen kanteloinen (JR 32175) — parallel in Narvusi
• puoli merdy kymmenetty (JR 19197) — parallel in Tulemajärvi
• puoli on merdy kymmenetty (JR 53088) — parallel in Tulemajärvi