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Kalajoki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems195
Verses1,211
Distinct words2,293
Collection years1829–1963
CollectorsIivari Sauvula · Aune Hongell · Oma Martti Paavolainen
Coordinates64.2422, 23.9834

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pikgu5
ammeesa4
kapulaista4
ippen6
pippen6
pannusa4
gun3
psyi3
otavasa4
nelijä5
haaraa5
helleri5
tissijä4
lehemällä4
kupukelleri3
ihimisesä3
tuohesta5
reesä4
varpaisa3
laukulla4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 195 poems collected in this place, 78 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 117 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.

Metsä (27)
Pohjankylä (20)
Rahjankylä (16)
Mehtäkylä (12)
Etelänkylä (1)
Mehtakylä (1)
Pohjankyla (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (117)

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.