Ylitornio

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 152 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 113 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.

• tupamökki heinähäkki (SKVR XII1 2889.) — parallel in Alatornio
• luki niitä näitä naulan päitä (SKVR XII1 2569.) — parallel in Alatornio
• renki se tappeli hangon kansa (SKVR XII1 2973.) — parallel in Kemi
• jänö se metsässä laukkaa (SKVR XII1 1884.) — parallel in Kemi
• pussin perä pruikkis (SKVR XII1 2889.) — parallel in Turtola
• tikkupäätä tikotinta (SKVR XII1 2889.) — parallel in Turtola
• tillin tiipukka (JR 80255) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• yttönä kattona (JR 80255) — parallel in Rovaniemi
• saappaat jalassa (JR 57988) — parallel in Narvusi
• yksin kaksin (JR 80252) — parallel in Narvusi