Tervo

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 224 poems collected in this place, 119 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 105 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.

• sinisessä sisississäs (JR 61195) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• kukkakuusen alla (JR 61201) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• venäläinen verikoira (JR 07167) — parallel in Narvusi
• minua ei millonkaa (JR 20605) — parallel in Narvusi
• vesillä viheltämästä (JR 07156) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• lainehilla laulamasta (JR 07156) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• sorsa soitti kanteletta (JR 07170) — parallel in Suistamo
• petäjästä pöyryhännän (JR 07156) — parallel in Suistamo
• tiistai tiloja korjatessa (JR 07160) — parallel in Nurmes
• kolome kynttelistä mattiin (JR 61219) — parallel in Nurmes