Viitasaari

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR 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 412 poems collected in this place, 57 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 355 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.

• kattilalla pienosella (JR 36847) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• koko kolme morsijanta (SKVR IX4 849.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• rauhoa rakentamaan (SKVR IX4 1338.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kello kuus kultasormus (JR 03839) — parallel in Suistamo
• missä aita (JR 40934) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• kukko noukkas (SKVR IX4 1032.) — parallel in Kivijärvi
• runon ruveta tekohon (JR 08115) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• voitehia keittämähän (SKVR IX4 548.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• ruunalla ruskealla (SKVR IX2 94.) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• täti koakun leipoo (SKVR IX2 86.) — parallel in Saarijärvi