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Haapajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems101
Verses802
Distinct words1,742
Collection years1884–1964
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Veera Lohi · A. Polvinen
Coordinates63.7764, 25.3740

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
raikuvan3
möyky2
röyky2
nevat2
maljaa2
salvosta2
tukittu3
kekriä2
helisevän2
siispä2
hyyllä3
paranteiksi2
avannosta2
niemiin2
tukkiata2
kutkelmata2
kähyä2
läiky2
voiteeksi3
suista3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 101 poems collected in this place, 32 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 69 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.

Oksava (14)
Jokelankylä (8)
Kuusaankylä (6)
Oksamo (2)
Oksalankylä (1)
Vehkapuro (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (69)

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.