Serepetta

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 398 poems collected in this place, 311 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 87 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). 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.

• laivoin vanhin vastaeli (SKVR IV2 2171.) — parallel in Kaprio
• uin miä laivoja likemmäs (SKVR IV2 2171.) — parallel in Kaprio
• päivälintu pääskylintu (JR 85976) — parallel in Soikkola
• kultakuppine käessä (SKVR IV2 2000.) — parallel in Soikkola
• tulta tervaa sisässä (SKVR XV 800.) — parallel in Narvusi
• palkkoinna pahoilla mailla (SKVR IV2 2023.) — parallel in Narvusi
• ei saant maata maatakseen (SKVR IV2 1830.) — parallel in Tyrö
• peltoa pesiäkseen (JR 85996) — parallel in Tyrö
• läksi ukko tappamaa (JR 85997) — parallel in Moloskovitsa
• otti pieniä sikoja (JR 85997) — parallel in Moloskovitsa