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Hankasalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems216
Verses2,148
Distinct words3,778
Collection years1839–1967
CollectorsJ. G. Oksanen · H. ja E. Festen · Anja Laapotti
Coordinates62.3891, 26.4670

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hemmel3
suluku4
itsellesi5
kapu6
kantimiin4
paesu3
tarvottiin3
kaunisteeksi2
puolikesä2
vierrennä2
valleiksi2
niukahtpa2
hulukka2
kalavot3
nokisesta3
paenu3
liittyköön3
peippostasi2
huavas2
haistelemaan2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 216 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 199 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Niemisjärvi (7)
Hänniskylä (4)
Säkinmäki (3)
Armisveden (1)
Havusalmi (1)
Kärkkäälä (1)
Also recorded at Konnevesi (2).
Poems with no finer place recorded (199)

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.