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Hämeenlinna

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems570
Verses3,034
Distinct words3,181
Collection years1780–1968
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Aukusti Salo · E. Jaakkola
Coordinates61.0152, 24.4458

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
gorilla19
torilla30
kävelivät23
kultaportista19
apina25
kyselivät12
osteli11
nosteli12
piiraa21
paaraa21
irvissä13
aidan29
kaije10
huusi34
trittis8
trattis8
anike11
tanike9
lensi32
kahdeksaan8

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 570 poems collected in this place, 51 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 519 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Hlinnan msr (40)
Järviöisten (6)
Hlinna t. (5)
Poems with no finer place recorded (519)

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.