Vesilahti

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

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 412 poems collected in this place, 107 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 305 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.

• katajan oksalla kannettiin (JR 15360) — parallel in Tyrvää
• että varpunen prykäsi oltta (JR 08126) — parallel in Tyrvää
• muhkeasti muurattua (JR 08119) — parallel in Karkku
• isopiru iilihinsä (JR 08119) — parallel in Karkku
• synnin teille synkiöille (JR 08119) — parallel in Tottijärvi
• tästä tuli tuskihinsa (JR 08119) — parallel in Tottijärvi
• hyvä renki kaunis renki (SKVR X1 1447.) — parallel in Lempäälä
• punasella pussosella (SKVR X1 522.) — parallel in Lempäälä
• sääli säkkihin evästä (JR 31493) — parallel in Marttila
• annan sinun käyräksesi (JR 31493) — parallel in Marttila