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Alajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems91
Verses645
Distinct words1,230
Collection years1839–1965
CollectorsVäinö Tuomaala · Etelä-Pohjanmaan Nuorisoseura · J. P. Kaltiala
Coordinates63.0217, 23.9123

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
koheltiin2
vetäin2
hellittävän2
lypsettihin2
paskannu2
illikka2
vierymästä2
parhaimia2
hittomiehiä2
lahto2
ittekki2
juurelles2
pattahan2
seisahta2
hipsutellen2
panettamahan2
lähinpä2
pillattihin2
hiekaksi2
huikka2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 91 poems collected in this place, 41 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 50 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.

Luoma-aho (19)
Levijoki (7)
Menkijärvi (5)
Kurejoki (3)
Karstaperä (2)
Sänkiaho (2)
Möksy (1)
Saukonperä (1)
Vanhainkoti (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (50)

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.