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Alavus

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems184
Verses1,000
Distinct words1,809
Collection years1866–1966
CollectorsArtturi Railonsala · Lempi Ruismäki · Elina Lahtinen
Coordinates62.5694, 23.4903

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
taaku4
vanhakulta2
remmellä2
mattimytty2
tulisej2
tulinej2
jousenem2
penkkihi2
kutimen4
saako4
tullukki3
umpula2
kumpula2
katilav2
perkeleetkin2
vääntää5
jonset3
kolo7
kääs3
niim4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 184 poems collected in this place, 131 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 53 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.

Vetämäjärvi (57)
Sydänmaa (36)
Taipale (16)
Niinimaa (?) (5)
Hukkala (4)
Kontiaisten (4)
Keskikylä (2)
Lahdenkylä (2)
Rantatöysän (2)
Sapsalammin (2)
Pollari (?) (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (53)

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.