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Kaavi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems640
Verses6,114
Distinct words8,168
Collection years1830–1968
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · E. J. Hyvärinen · Muudan mökinmies
Coordinates63.0300, 28.7264

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
muutki15
jotta28
manoon12
ite25
kintaaseen7
penkeressä10
murhamiehet15
kasvuvoon6
takanen9
tuonne37
siikanen14
kovassa14
lihoo10
aamusille6
pahantekijät11
synty17
raunion9
loviatar7
tumpsasta5
vikaan5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 640 poems collected in this place, 100 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 540 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Luikonlahti (29)
Niinivaaran kylän Telkkävaara (18)
Hirvisaari (9)
Säyneiskylä (8)
Sivakka (7)
Marianvaara (6)
Viitaniemi (6)
Also recorded at Säyneinen (2).
Kortteinen (3)
Kortteis (3)
Kaatranen (2)
Koitteinen (2)
Maarianvaara (2)
Hirvisaarenkylä (1)
Hyvölä (1)
Kortteiskylä (1)
Pet (?) (1)
Syneiskylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (540)

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.