Seinäjoki

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 12 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 11 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.

• karikka kannosta (SKVR XI 2179.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• eikä terää tullutkana (SKVR XI 1567.) — parallel in Ilmajoki
• mato musta maan alainen (SKVR XI 1384.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pajun juurta pannehensa (SKVR XI 1384.) — parallel in Narvusi
• pöytä kullasta kurottu (SKVR XI 2542.) — parallel in Kauhava
• eikä vaella hevosen varsa (SKVR XI 785.) — parallel in Kauhava
• niin minä lennän kaksi (SKVR XI 874.) — parallel in Laihia
• sivuseinät sirkan luista (SKVR XI 2542.) — parallel in Laihia
• ja suonia katkoomahan (SKVR XI 785.) — parallel in Kurikka
• eikä suonia katkooman (SKVR XI 785.) — parallel in Kurikka