Uskela

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,347 poems collected in this place, 125 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 2,222 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.

• mitä se siellä silloin löi (JR 21004) — parallel in Kuusjoki
• kuulin siellä kellon lyövän (JR 21004) — parallel in Kuusjoki
• kalamies mul kaloi annoi (SKVR VIII 4932.) — parallel in Salo
• kalamies mul kaloi anno (SKVR VIII 3475.) — parallel in Salo
• pikkanen poika (JR 20993) — parallel in Halikko
• iäisen liiton vannoi rakkaalle sulholleen (JR 18747) — parallel in Halikko
• kolmas koskelt kotosi (JR 21070) — parallel in Muurla
• kolme jalkka pannus (JR 21072) — parallel in Muurla
• kiikurin kaakakurin kirjava lintu (JR 43751) — parallel in Perniö
• kiikurin kaakurin kirjava lintu (JR 21372) — parallel in Perniö