Arhippa Perttunen

Arhippa Perttunen (Russian: Архип Иванович Перттунен; Ladvozero village, now a part of the Republic of Karelia 1769 – c. 1841) was a Karelian folk singer.[1]

Around 1834, Elias Lönnrot met Perttunen for three days, while on his fifth field trip collecting poems for his Kalevala.[2] Perttunen would have sung in the Karelian dialect, so it was necessary for Lönnrot to make some modifications to make the poems more understandable to Finnish readers.[3] Later, two other collectors, Johan Fredrik Cajan (in 1836) and Matthias Alexander Castrén (in 1839), visited Perttunen, and in total 85 texts of Perttunen's poetry were collected. Perttunen would have performed the poems orally. Stylistically, his text contains widespread use of alliteration and parallelism, similarly to other singers featured in the Kalevala.[1] His tradition was also carried on by his son Miihkali, who collected 81 of his poems.[2]

The State Prize of the Karelian ASSR was named after him.

Literature
  • Saarinen, Jukka (2018). Runolaulun poetiikka: Säe, syntaksi ja parallelismi Arhippa Perttusen runoissa [The poetics of oral poetry: verse structure, syntax, and parallelism in the texts of Arhippa Perttunen] (Ph.D. thesis) (in Finnish). University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-951-51-3918-4. Lay summary.
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References
  1. Saarinen, Jukka (2017). ""Said a Word, Uttered Thus": Structures and Functions of Parallelism in Arhippa Perttunen's Poems". Oral Tradition. 31 (2). doi:10.1353/ort.2017.0016. hdl:10355/65389. ISSN 1542-4308.
  2. "Arhippa Perttunen". authorscalendar.info. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  3. Skousen, Royal (1986). "The Dialect of the Kalevala". Scandinavian Studies. 58 (3): 275–284. ISSN 0036-5637. JSTOR 40918769.
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