Vehmaa

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 75 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 74 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.

• ämm istus kuistill (SKVR VIII 5062.) — parallel in Uusikaupunki
• söi kaikk piparuutip paparuuti (JR 46141) — parallel in Uusikaupunki
• talo läks luistill (SKVR VIII 5062.) — parallel in Uskela
• rakens talo jään pääll (SKVR VIII 5062.) — parallel in Uskela
• kyll mä mene maa ala (SKVR VIII 3243.) — parallel in Uusikirkko Tl.
• kivikylää mennää (JR 35615) — parallel in Uusikirkko Tl.
• nippu nappu kellastappu (JR 46141) — parallel in Taivassalo
• kuko ja kana menivä sauna (JR 81216) — parallel in Taivassalo
• kuko kippas kaivol (JR 81216) — parallel in Lokalahti
• mistäs sitä saa (JR 81215) — parallel in Lokalahti