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Kauvatsa

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems316
Verses1,806
Distinct words2,120
Collection years1852–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · K. O. Santavirta · H. Massa
Coordinates61.3799, 22.4880

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kippara8
joukkohon9
nauroivat6
taskuunsa8
puppis8
vastakkaa6
sääkskosken4
eriksonnin4
pödä4
tanrun4
ralttaa4
hydän4
anrun4
taavetsoo4
luistilla4
tirlir4
lirlita4
runkalan4
kauniston4
nippan4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 316 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 313 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.

Jaara (1)
Also recorded at Kiikoinen (1).
Kaakinmaa (1)
Yttilä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (313)

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.