Simo

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 360 poems collected in this place, 122 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 238 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.

• jänis se metsässä laukkaa (JR 65213) — parallel in Alatornio
• nyt on kevät lapsellain (JR 57868) — parallel in Alatornio
• lyhytjalka lysmäpolvi (SKVR XII2 6489.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• suolet annan soutajalle (SKVR XII2 6702.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• pium paum paukkaa (JR 65210) — parallel in Kemi
• ellen tellen tuumin tei (SKVR XII1 2739.) — parallel in Kemi
• laulan laulan lapselleni (JR 65179) — parallel in Narvusi
• eikä tietä kellarihin (SKVR XII1 357.) — parallel in Narvusi
• mikä sota nuijasota (SKVR XII1 1413.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• mikä ruoka sikaruoka (SKVR XII1 1414.) — parallel in Saarijärvi