Soutjärvi

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 1,142 poems collected in this place, 1,041 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 101 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.

• metsän emäntäinen (JR 81522) — parallel in Narvusi
• lapset lapset lapakod (JR 05632) — parallel in Narvusi
• hospodi blahoslovi kristos (JR 77360) — parallel in Suistamo
• venehet tervamas (JR 81956) — parallel in Suistamo
• juoksin juoksin jokea pitkin (JR 81508) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• musta mato (JR 77393) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• liha lepaizile (JR 77640) — parallel in Setumaa
• liha liphaizile (JR 77501) — parallel in Setumaa
• hänel kysub (JR 58723) — parallel in Soikkola
• minun vellel sobatan sobatan (JR 05635) — parallel in Soikkola