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Karkku

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems98
Verses3,616
Distinct words3,338
Collection years1892–1967
CollectorsFrans Kärki · Aino Äärinen · Anni Heimonen
Coordinates61.4124, 23.0723

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
poikalastas14
karotat13
karota13
klaus16
toreksi13
ualevi12
rakkina13
elinainen14
meneväsi11
myyrä14
elinan12
larolle11
karotin11
ualevin10
huarra11
klasista12
poikinesi12
viimeiset13
kolki11
laukosta11

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 98 poems collected in this place, 37 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 61 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.

Masomaa (5)
Kutala (4)
Lielahti (4)
Piimäjärvi (4)
Jokipohja (3)
Salokunta (3)
Karhunkylä (2)
Kärppälä (2)
Piimäsjärvi (2)
Hurula (1)
Karkunkylä (1)
Kiurala (1)
Koivunkylä (1)
Lielahdenk (1)
Piimasjärvi (1)
Piimäsjärven takamaa (1)
Suotaala (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (61)

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.