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Karstula

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems386
Verses2,802
Distinct words3,881
Collection years1884–1967
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Saarijärven yhteiskoulu · Samuli Paulaharju
Coordinates62.8927, 24.7946

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tphoh7
ketohon7
syytämään5
aukeaseen6
kannukses7
kannuksesi7
sinimarjan6
kankaaseen8
nuolista5
ketoon7
piikkisi8
ikenillä5
hyppysissä6
rautahampahilla3
mehtää7
pistä23
hyytä9
peräpartta3
kankahasen5
ampiainen10

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 386 poems collected in this place, 60 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 326 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.

Juoksuaho (36)
Vahanka (6)
Oinola (4)
Vastinki (4)
Saunamäki (3)
Humppi (2)
Kiminki (2)
Kivij (?) (1)
Saunakylä (1)
Also recorded at Kivijärvi (1).
Saunamäenkylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (326)

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.