Suomenniemi

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 30 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 27 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.

• kaiken kartanon luvalla (SKVR VI2 6283.) — parallel in Suistamo
• pyy pyrähti moa järhti (SKVR VI2 4556.) — parallel in Suistamo
• mäne sinne kunne käsken (SKVR VI1 3528.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• koti toivo kuolleeksi (JR 48217) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• seiso seppä pajassa (SKVR VI1 3173.) — parallel in Lempaala
• kippeille voiteex (SKVR VI1 3172.) — parallel in Lempaala
• sisareksi siikaselle (JR 48217) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• lapsi laiha laulamahan (JR 48229) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• tämän piijan (JR 73618) — parallel in Kitee
• jos ei tänä kesänä (JR 73618) — parallel in Kitee