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Karjala Tl.

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems51
Verses302
Distinct words638
Collection years1890–1962
CollectorsEemil Saarimaa · Aili Laiho · Selma Mattila
Coordinates60.8247, 22.1347

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pääl11
mustilan3
kiljuma2
turvaskatto3
kamalap2
parkuma2
piänep2
mustilaha2
kako3
piikap2
jolses2
pojap2
kellase2
jyväp2
pakosi2
leevo2
köpi2
haukkuma2
vahettama2
olik2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 51 poems collected in this place, 35 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 16 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.

Laajoki (18)
Haankylä (11)
Suojoki (5)
Karjala (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (16)

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.