Uukuniemi

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 348 poems collected in this place, 112 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 236 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.

• pyy pyrähti maa järähti (JR 02599) — parallel in Suistamo
• siihen liha liittyköhön (JR 02599) — parallel in Suistamo
• mäne pilvi pietolaa (JR 79647) — parallel in Narvusi
• mato musta maan alanen (JR 02003) — parallel in Narvusi
• tervatuiltakin teloilta (JR 02610) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• toukka tuonen karvallinen (JR 02003) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kuku kultainen käkönen (JR 79454) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• silmin kieroin keksinevi (JR 02598) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• pään panisin papille (JR 02579) — parallel in Lempaala
• istu kun rymä rytyssä (SKVR VII2 3017.) — parallel in Lempaala