PLOT CONTAMINATIONS SPECIFIC TO KARELIAN WEDDING RUNE SONGS
The article deals with Karelian wedding rune songs, more specifically their compositional elements and possible plot contaminations. As an example, the author analyzes one of the most common plots of the song performed when marital matchmakers arrive. The study vividly demonstrates the transformation of Karelian wedding rune songs with time and the factors behind this process. The texts of songs, recorded by the collectors from the 1930s to the 1960s, served as the material for the study. In addition, the earliest variants, dating to the second half of the XIXth century, have also been used.