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Isojoki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems318
Verses1,619
Distinct words2,468
Collection years1871–1968
CollectorsJ. R. Kortesniemi · M. N. Möykky · Niilo Kallio
Coordinates62.1141, 21.9062

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ähkä11
kleini8
puhka11
mihinkäs13
hiveltyi7
vastahan14
pidätä8
meet8
jesus19
kristus11
sisältä11
piparruutit4
tukahutat4
tyysty7
jordaninvirta3
koi12
lautamiestä8
tuliko6
naria7
maria15

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 318 poems collected in this place, 78 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 240 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.

Kodesjärvi (35)
Heikkilä (13)
Kodasjärvi (8)
Villamo (8)
Vanhakylä (6)
Kauhajoki (3)
Karesjärvi (2)
Mäntylän (2)
Kortteenkylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (240)

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.