Viipuri

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 305 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 266 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.

• ennikki pennikki nap (JR 14876) — parallel in Kivennapa
• tule surma vastaa (JR 63774) — parallel in Kivennapa
• martti maalle karttu jäälle (SKVR XIII3 9827.) — parallel in Narvusi
• meijän herrasta heponen (JR 82521) — parallel in Narvusi
• entisille kannoillehen (SKVR XIII2 3033.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• lepän pökkelön lehosta (SKVR XIII2 3750.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• koivu korven notkelmasta (SKVR XIII3 9544.) — parallel in Suistamo
• alla vuoren voivotteli (JR 33456) — parallel in Suistamo
• sika suureksi sikisi (JR 18931) — parallel in Sakkola
• kirjavia porsahia (JR 18931) — parallel in Sakkola