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Halsua

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems69
Verses365
Distinct words833
Collection years1884–1936
CollectorsEino Hotakainen · Toivo Vuorela · F. A. Luukko
Coordinates63.4459, 24.2609

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pikkulipi3
töpsis3
karvasäkki2
papinkellot3
lehemän3
herasilimä2
puurua2
pium6
paum6
väkää2
maitua2
kivijärven4
villen2
söisen1
parhas1
routikko1
kortanasi1
väsyvästäräkki1
sietsemän1
vilkevässä1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 69 poems collected in this place, 24 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 45 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.

Ylikylä (24)
Poems with no finer place recorded (45)

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.