Venjoki

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

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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 659 poems collected in this place, 124 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 535 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.

• kova kosto on tuonelassa (SKVR IV1 727.) — parallel in Narvusi
• olin orjana virossa (SKVR IV1 21.) — parallel in Narvusi
• puno nuora ruumenista (SKVR IV1 68.) — parallel in Lempaala
• puuttui emo kuulemaan (SKVR IV1 725.) — parallel in Lempaala
• sikojansa syöttämässä (JR 24047) — parallel in Soikkola
• millä mie meron haravoin (SKVR IV1 50.) — parallel in Soikkola
• mariainen maata myöten (SKVR IV3 4571.) — parallel in Tyrö
• mitä maata neitoselle (SKVR IV1 94.) — parallel in Tyrö
• tuli turva turnukselle (JR 24048) — parallel in Moloskovitsa
• emo kuuli nuo sanaset (JR 24051) — parallel in Moloskovitsa