Suojärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR 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 1,487 poems collected in this place, 410 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,077 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.

• hankki harmovan hevosen (JR 00226) — parallel in Suistamo
• muan emäntä muan isäntä (JR 23664) — parallel in Suistamo
• kavahuttel kankahalla (JR 00229) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• tuattas on koiss kuolemassa (JR 00229) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• ilon lyyen muille maille (JR 00229) — parallel in Korpiselkä
• laki piälle lankiaa (JR 00226) — parallel in Korpiselkä
• varvalle varattomalle (JR 00229) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• yheksän meren yli (JR 00234) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kylväjille kyntäjille (JR 00236) — parallel in Narvusi
• kullervo poika kalervon (JR 00229) — parallel in Narvusi