Valkjärvi

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 243 poems collected in this place, 120 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 123 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.

• posso kasvo kauhiaksi (JR 02890) — parallel in Sakkola
• sika suureksi sikisi (JR 02890) — parallel in Sakkola
• punaposki poimimaana (SKVR XIII1 755.) — parallel in Lempaala
• saraheinä vuorta vasten (SKVR XIII4 10746.) — parallel in Lempaala
• laurim poika lappalainen (JR 02891) — parallel in Narvusi
• istu oksalla orava (JR 02891) — parallel in Narvusi
• tuli viimen nurmen tuomas (JR 02909) — parallel in Kivennapa
• itse rengiksi rupesi (JR 02890) — parallel in Kivennapa
• mitä otti palkastoase (JR 02890) — parallel in Rautu
• kultaisen kurikan kanssa (JR 02890) — parallel in Rautu