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Kauhava

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems534
Verses3,053
Distinct words4,512
Collection years1880–1966
CollectorsMatti Jussila · Tyyne Salokannel · A. J. Vallinmäki
Coordinates63.1145, 23.1469

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
viärhän11
kiärää12
papimmuarim8
siälä21
nyv8
syämhän8
kiärräp6
toukal8
nisusia7
olkhol5
lusikap7
ruskialla14
thyp5
mihnkä5
ysikee7
huutivat6
piiphun5
penkillen5
valkoosella6
tullukkin6

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 534 poems collected in this place, 81 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 453 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.

Jussilankylä (38)
Pernaa (10)
Kauhavankylä (8)
Kosola (6)
Pelkaalankylä (4)
Kauhava (3)
Alakylä (2)
Huhmarkoski (2)
Jylhä (2)
Ruotsalankylä (2)
Fräntilä (1)
Hemminki (1)
Lauttamus (1)
Perttulankylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (453)

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.