Sulkava

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 410 poems collected in this place, 208 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 202 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.

• siel o lapset ristimätä (JR 77080) — parallel in Narvusi
• täst on kultain kulkenut (JR 38164) — parallel in Narvusi
• puun juureen pujottelija (SKVR VI2 7272.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• nuoren lehmän nännäsestä (SKVR VI1 247.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• aivan ovettomassa (JR 67713) — parallel in Suistamo
• aitassa lukon takanaa (SKVR VI2 6576.) — parallel in Suistamo
• olet kyllä oiva ruoka (JR 74011) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kuules viina kun ma laulan (JR 74011) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• puustelin punanen kissa (JR 77026) — parallel in Juva
• kissa se hyppäs kiikun päälle (SKVR VI1 1061.) — parallel in Juva