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Jämsä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems331
Verses2,531
Distinct words3,911
Collection years1888–1965
CollectorsVäinö Nieminen · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Maire Hirvonen
Coordinates61.8847, 25.2251

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
onpi14
varmas5
tooke4
kaljan6
kuinkain3
vaaken5
roukku4
myöskin10
tosikin7
huis18
lautoon4
simosilta3
ysikin6
tappi6
koivet7
mehtään9
ronkkaluuhun3
tilleris4
viiken4
looke3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 331 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 293 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.

Suonsaari (27)
Ruvotsula (4)
Korpil (?) (3)
Juoksulahti (2)
Toivilankylä (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (293)

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.