Terijoki

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 200 poems collected in this place, 42 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 158 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.

• piika etsi pirtapuita (JR 09511) — parallel in Kivennapa
• etsi etsi ihanaista (JR 09510) — parallel in Kivennapa
• heinille heliseville (SKVR XIII4 12464.) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• minun kultani ruusu (JR 09510) — parallel in Uusikirkko Vpl.
• viel on kynnys kyynelissä (JR 09508) — parallel in Narvusi
• et tongi torajokea (JR 46231) — parallel in Narvusi
• yölintu lepakkolintu (JR 09506) — parallel in Sakkola
• et tongi toisena kesänä (JR 46231) — parallel in Sakkola
• rauta raukka ruoste raiska (JR 09500) — parallel in Rautu
• toukka tuonenkarvalline (JR 09499) — parallel in Rautu