RunoVerse

Evijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems209
Verses1,172
Distinct words2,118
Collection years1888–1962
CollectorsTuomaala, Väinö, Etelä-Pohjanmaan Nuorisoseura
Coordinates63.3838, 23.4305

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kitusen5
nahkamatti4
pellinpäältä3
arkaperse3
seisopa4
puotisella2
mantela2
matoniemi2
lappinen2
tyynismaa2
hympät2
kalakeiton2
paleloita2
vahtiaan2
luulikkos3
lehemän4
möngillä2
tyyrnän2
muttelä2
karvainen5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 209 poems collected in this place, 165 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 44 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.

Kerttuankylä (105)
Lahdenkylä (42)
Jokikylä (4)
Haapajärvenkylä (3)
Särkikylä (3)
Ina (2)
Kerttua (2)
Haapajärvi (1)
Haapikylä (1)
Inankylä (1)
Kivijärvenkylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (44)

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.