Tammela

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 658 poems collected in this place, 34 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 624 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.

• likat hyppäs parveen (JR 00310) — parallel in Loppi
• sauna rupes palamaan (JR 00299) — parallel in Loppi
• kolmas konttipuoli (JR 00265) — parallel in Uskela
• peukalo putti (JR 00264) — parallel in Uskela
• seittemäs sepänemäntä (JR 00289) — parallel in Hattula
• neljäs neitsykäinen (JR 00289) — parallel in Hattula
• tuu tuu tupakkirullaa (JR 00312) — parallel in Sääksmäki
• housut tehtiin makkarasta (JR 00288) — parallel in Sääksmäki
• jussin pussit punnittiin (JR 00286) — parallel in Tyrvää
• viires villahattu (JR 00265) — parallel in Tyrvää