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Joutsa

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems89
Verses652
Distinct words1,495
Collection years1886–1962
CollectorsArvo Heino · Kalervo Groundstroem · K. F. ja Palmroth, K. W. Heideman
Coordinates61.7640, 26.2529

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kämppilässä2
kiiliäinen3
villasuu2
niittuun2
nimettömään2
tapahtunna2
männen2
tuut3
vellok1
perisopest1
raputtakoon1
kirvehenki1
rutoon1
sisähäk1
seisaallansa1
nahistak1
vaimoansak1
veihtellänsäk1
innostu1
melittäävät1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 89 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 81 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.

Angesselkä (3)
Uimaniemi (2)
Jonsa (1)
Kouranen (1)
Tammimäki (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (81)

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.