Virrat

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 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.

• mitäs poltat (SKVR X2 3578.) — parallel in Narvusi
• kunniallinen kaikess tiess (JR 75533) — parallel in Narvusi
• minkä pyyn (JR 16254) — parallel in Tyrvää
• puh pah pois (JR 16252) — parallel in Tyrvää
• öllö pöllö sinä minä (JR 10288) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• tiesin täällä tarvittavan (JR 07538) — parallel in Saarijärvi
• ennenkun paraasta miekastan (SKVR X1 60.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• puu puhðas jumalan luoma (SKVR X1 2171.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• joka ei oo piilossa (JR 11179) — parallel in Suistamo
• emäntä huusi pois (JR 16246) — parallel in Suistamo