Vihanti

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 273 poems collected in this place, 6 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 267 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.

• jos ei pihlajat pitäne (SKVR XII1 3584.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• lentää laulaa (JR 19348) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• peukalo peppi (JR 19366) — parallel in Suistamo
• annappa akka tyttäresi (JR 19318) — parallel in Suistamo
• mitä leikari tahtoo (JR 19392) — parallel in Narvusi
• maitopyörästä pötikkä (JR 19371) — parallel in Narvusi
• polveen pätösen pojan (SKVR XII1 40.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kust on suonet sortununna (SKVR XII2 5904.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• kekristä jouluun (JR 19290) — parallel in Nurmes
• viipuriin villomaan (JR 19283) — parallel in Nurmes