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Harjavalta

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems125
Verses1,139
Distinct words2,030
Collection years1889–1938
CollectorsNikolaus Ruusunen · Porin tyttölyseo · Fr. Niemi
Coordinates61.3327, 22.1605

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
touturi3
yls3
yhteisesti3
poukkasi3
nääks2
paapolan2
pukkon2
kaevetaan2
verest3
ko9
pomena4
pukon2
valust2
kottiit2
vakkeri2
tellaa2
piäliin2
kauramaan2
muuraan2
stää2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 125 poems collected in this place, 34 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 91 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.

Hiirijärvi (10)
Pirilä (7)
Vinnare (7)
Torttila (6)
Pitkäpäälä (3)
Kuloo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (91)

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.