Savitaipale

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 407 poems collected in this place, 82 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 325 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.

• tuoltapa neitonen sirahti (SKVR VI1 191.) — parallel in Narvusi
• menin itse etsimääni (SKVR VI1 245.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pitkin meren ranntaa (JR 03918) — parallel in Suistamo
• anna rauha raavahillen (SKVR VI2 5678.) — parallel in Suistamo
• onko lasta kätkyvessä (SKVR VI1 1388.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mettä kieleisi nenässä (SKVR VI1 3015.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tie herra heliä pouta (SKVR VI2 7629.) — parallel in Lempaala
• sorsa soitti kannteleella (SKVR VI1 1754.) — parallel in Lempaala
• ja virstan verran vettä (JR 03890) — parallel in Sakkola
• tuot suurta surkeuttaa (JR 03907) — parallel in Sakkola