Töysä

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 397 poems collected in this place, 24 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 373 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.

• saappaat jalassa (JR 15321) — parallel in Narvusi
• poika mulle miniän tuopi (SKVR XI 78.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tanelin pallia paleli (JR 53338) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• piu pou pau pou (SKVR XI 200.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tule uni uunin päältä (JR 08198) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• koukkasipa kolmannenki (JR 16261) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• jos et tätä tottele (JR 53305) — parallel in Suistamo
• toinen tohturi (JR 53333) — parallel in Suistamo
• umpuli kumpuli kutimen taaku (JR 08206) — parallel in Laihia
• ruskialla ruunalla (JR 08192) — parallel in Laihia