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Ähtäri

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems94
Verses714
Distinct words1,502
Collection years1883–1966
CollectorsVäinö Tuomaala · T. E. Okkola · Mytologinen sanakirja Sanakirjasäätiö
Coordinates62.5698, 24.2126

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

WordOccurrences
kujet2
pamppu3
vakkela2
eemmäksi2
pijätä3
komatima2
piiloon4
olokoon3
ro2
suihtet2
tauluun4
yttimä2
kattima2
onkea2
sisalisko2
hevoses3
vemmaa2
pisto2
nu3
tulukoon2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 94 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 72 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.

Alastaipale (12)
Peränne (6)
Alastaival (1)
Hangonmäki (1)
Kuivasperän (1)
Niemiskylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (72)

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.