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Kärsämäki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems248
Verses3,050
Distinct words5,133
Collection years1883–1961
CollectorsE. Keränen · Leander Luoma · Hannes Syrjälä
Coordinates63.9651, 25.8687

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kuuhkana3
hyi13
tuonutkaan3
mantereelle4
lemmon12
puskuja5
einehelle4
puserran5
seun3
lappioon3
jesu4
väipästellessään4
pihkaan2
perittömään2
siemenettömään2
ilotti2
maisteltuna2
kiristellä2
turkiksia2
käjyjä2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 248 poems collected in this place, 70 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 178 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.

Hallanperä (62)
Saviselkä (5)
Porkkala (2)
Kärsäniäkt (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (178)

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.