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Keltto

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems343
Verses5,105
Distinct words6,964
Collection years1848–1937
CollectorsForsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Fr. A. Saxbäck · D. E. D. Europaeus
Coordinates59.8855, 30.7272

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mie112
sie68
miun46
emo24
neion20
siitynyt6
neito41
sulho22
kui19
myö18
käin13
miulle16
emoni17
sisoni9
miull12
miuista8
emmoin9
soaren8
suutuin6
käyvvessäis5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 343 poems collected in this place, 241 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 102 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.

Mustapää (61)
Suur-Manuskala (50)
Vanhakylä (49)
Rosmittala (41)
Suuri Manuskala (17)
Manuskala (16)
Pieni Manuskala (1)
Rosmiitala (1)
Sarvela (1)
Seltsoi (1)
Suuri-Manuskala (1)
Tauru (1)
Virkkilä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (102)

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.