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Helsinki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems365
Verses1,891
Distinct words2,502
Collection years1892–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Oma Martti Paavolainen · Toini Vuorio
Coordinates60.2660, 25.0029

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
sellen19
knor11
ellen19
moikon11
limppan11
pimppan11
sapuli12
tosikan10
sipuli14
osikan9
semmonen10
kävelivät9
loikon11
maalaa11
sinipää14
punapää14
maakaa8
torilla9
apina8
knorr5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 365 poems collected in this place, 19 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 346 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.

Munkkiniemi (14)
Oulunkylä (3)
Pukinmäki (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (346)

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.