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Alavieska

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems24
Verses621
Distinct words1,276
Collection years1800–1967
CollectorsZacharias Topelius · Helvi Auranen · Sandra Eskelinen
Coordinates64.1895, 24.3425

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pellavakuontalosta1
puoliskasta1
sonkajärven1
vassosella1
tapostelin1
pippuripussit1
keititangot1
viiratu1
ippestuu1
koulusa1
keskisuomesa1
perttan1
kansakoululla1
kaapunkllle1
loitsimaa1
etilmossa1
virpomaan1
varpomaan1
toravitavillaa1
messutessa1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 24 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 22 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.

Taluskylä (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (22)

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.