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Joensuu

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems104
Verses683
Distinct words1,468
Collection years1907–1967
CollectorsOlga Hirvonen · Maria Pitkänen · Oskari Merikoski
Coordinates62.5997, 29.8134

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tarttuuhan2
vuohti2
kienty2
reknaa2
raijjan2
kaheksaan2
aaaaa2
pippam2
heleman2
horjuen2
tokotin2
lippam2
vanger2
poutoo2
temmita2
leukaluusta2
varvan2
paakarin2
uuvelle2
sykkyrään2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 104 poems collected in this place, 19 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 85 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.

Vaivio (17)
Hukanhauta (1)
Sulkulahti (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (85)

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.