Uhtua

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 and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,374 poems collected in this place, 288 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,086 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: rand = coastal area. 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.

• vanhan akan vakkasesta (JR 00154) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mene mustalle joelle (JR 00157) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• eikä varsin vasta liene (JR 02404) — parallel in Kontokki
• niinkuin suomen sukkulainen (JR 02404) — parallel in Kontokki
• kylän on paras patvaskana (JR 02404) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• aittaset alentelekse (JR 02404) — parallel in Kiimaisjärvi
• katehen kovan eteen (JR 00160) — parallel in Suistamo
• ympäri nevan jokea (JR 02417) — parallel in Suistamo
• puolel on punakeränen (JR 02404) — parallel in Repola
• weijo tuli vesi läikkyi (JR 02404) — parallel in Repola