Sortavala

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 784 poems collected in this place, 348 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 436 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

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.

• kolmen linnan korkevuks (JR 00173) — parallel in Suistamo
• likkua sekä lasta (JR 00169) — parallel in Suistamo
• yhen söi toisen möi (JR 00180) — parallel in Narvusi
• tuoreeks terveeks (JR 00189) — parallel in Narvusi
• uni uunilta kysyy (SKVR VII2 3457.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• veikkoni miekku katkekkah (JR 00173) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• varasti vangilta voita (JR 00175) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• aa aa allin lasta (JR 00172) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• miniä saunan lämmittää (JR 09876) — parallel in Lempaala
• älä kalan pyytäjille (SKVR VII2 3243 α.) — parallel in Lempaala