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Jämijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems121
Verses713
Distinct words1,075
Collection years1890–1961
CollectorsViljo Alanen · V. R. Välisalo · Anna Räystölä
Coordinates61.8475, 22.6892

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
asumasijasta4
nattapöllöön3
keringistä3
punasiin4
hiirikolla7
sinisiin4
kohdelleet3
luiskahtaneen3
kohdeltiin3
ripakkaan3
pidätä6
kastetusta4
yhky3
putkenpolttama4
lohenmustan3
ripakasta3
kristitystä3
ähyyn2
kamelinluista2
kerinkiin2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 121 poems collected in this place, 84 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 37 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.

Kuusjoenkylä (37)
Sydänmaa (30)
Sydänmaankylä (7)
Suurimaankylä (6)
Jämiänkeidas (3)
Kierikka (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (37)

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.