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Janakkala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems378
Verses2,047
Distinct words2,399
Collection years1886–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Mildred Ratia · Esko Aaltonen
Coordinates60.8758, 24.7114

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
taappolaan8
anttas6
huroo14
korotia9
villinkoo7
kerkkolaan6
kullattu12
naapukka13
tippurat8
kaksikymmentviis4
puttis8
nannan8
tuntemista5
kulmista7
kuts7
kattona8
tupaseen6
vonnaa7
tyyraa4
aakkelin4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 378 poems collected in this place, 161 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 217 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.

Vähikkälä (56)
Sauvala (42)
Turenki (23)
Rehakka (19)
Leppäkoski (8)
Melkkola (4)
Hyrikkälä (2)
Tervakoski (2)
Jankkk (1)
Kiipula (1)
Napiala (1)
Ukkoila (1)
Ukkola (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (217)

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.