Utajärvi

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 the songs were collected in

Of the 110 poems collected in this place, 10 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 100 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.

• karvasta emon kapehen (SKVR XII2 5762.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• isä viisas viienneksi (SKVR XII1 921.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• keskimäiseen taloon (SKVR XII1 46.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kysy kynnyksen ylite (SKVR XII1 46.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• mehiläinen iliman lintu (SKVR XII2 5382.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• niputtimet naputtimet (SKVR XII1 1086.) — parallel in Suomussalmi
• pis pis pikkusta lasta (SKVR XII1 703.) — parallel in Kemi
• nokilangan nostaja pikilangan pistäjä (JR 39976) — parallel in Kemi
• ei saa kukaan tulla (JR 39971) — parallel in Suistamo
• etpä tiiä minkä löysin (SKVR XII1 1579.) — parallel in Suistamo