Alatornio

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (JR corpus)
Poems	2,012
Verses	9,834
Distinct words	7,537
Collection years	1892–1968
Collectors	Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys, Railonsala, Artturi
Coordinates	66.0607, 24.3279

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
portten	67
päkkää	57
pukkaa	73
mii	60
ysikin	60
ortten	43
toukun	68
kalajoelta	51
uppen	31
puppen	30
virman	38
ylikylästä	47
tanikka	41
pirkkoa	28
aater	34
tosikin	51
yhtoi	23
loukun	67
joukosta	66
kukkolan	36

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,012 poems collected in this place, 688 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,324 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.

Kyläjoki (189)