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Kauhajoki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems113
Verses697
Distinct words1,212
Collection years1889–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Helmi Harju · P. Alanen
Coordinates62.3388, 22.2548

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
sormenpäältä3
salannut3
lymys4
varikselle4
kleirin2
kräätäri2
pikipoianpietari2
pitis2
tiritari2
lymyn5
loukkohon3
jätisemään2
saadun2
täppy2
tätten2
tokisee2
kalleri2
tääpykkä2
yttenä5
olkohon4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 113 poems collected in this place, 37 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 76 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.

Hyyppä (36)
Hangaskylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (76)

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.