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Iisalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems461
Verses7,648
Distinct words11,200
Collection years1815–1961
CollectorsSofia Snellman · A. I. Arwidsson · Anni Mykrä
Coordinates63.5307, 27.1820

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tärkysti9
armaax8
ihanax8
piertanolle8
nukallen8
kaanpa7
ollaxeis8
metisellen8
varsikollen6
vammoillen8
tähystämään8
paranteex6
nurmellen8
kipeillen8
kaikenlaisen7
luota13
voiteex5
yhdexän6
viljavasti5
sittä10

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 461 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 422 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.

Laukkumäki (27)
Pörsänmäki (3)
Runni (?) (2)
Rutakko (2)
Also recorded at Sonkajärvi (5).
Iisalmen tien (1)
Kiuruvesi (1)
Luppamäki (1)
Suojärvi (1)
Ulmala (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (422)

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.