Vittanki

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 93 poems collected in this place, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 84 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.

• yheksän sylen syvässä (SKVR XII1 3635.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• mistä nuori lehmä sapi (SKVR XII1 1200.) — parallel in Vuokkiniemi
• kattilassa pikkusessa (SKVR XII1 4679.) — parallel in Suistamo
• kultaseen kuppisehen (SKVR XII1 4408.) — parallel in Suistamo
• maan luvalla puun luvalla (SKVR XII2 7744.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• salpa saunan karsinasta (SKVR XII1 4405.) — parallel in Ilomantsi
• pyy pyrähti maa järähti (JR 52021) — parallel in Narvusi
• mihiŋkäs menet hiri parka (SKVR XII1 1200.) — parallel in Narvusi
• tappoi isän tappoi äitin (SKVR XII1 1403.) — parallel in Kontokki
• pää keikkui kemijoella (JR 51971) — parallel in Kontokki