Sodankylä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR 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 537 poems collected in this place, 185 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 352 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.

• pantu kaikesta pahasta (JR 52320) — parallel in Kemi
• korppi kolmen lemmon lintu (JR 52320) — parallel in Kemi
• mikä kolme paassa jalkaa (JR 52346) — parallel in Alatornio
• synny para synny para (JR 52337) — parallel in Alatornio
• kello neljä neulan silmä (SKVR XII1 1221.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• kello kolme konin polvi (SKVR XII1 1221.) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• maksoihinsa maatukohon (SKVR XII2 5442.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• aijan rautasen rakennan (JR 52326) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kolmannessa koikelossa (JR 52186) — parallel in Kittilä
• älä vihaa lastas (JR 51999) — parallel in Kittilä