RunoVerse

Kemi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems1,740
Verses8,509
Distinct words7,566
Collection years1800–1968
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys, Topelius, Zacharias
Coordinates65.8700, 24.7794

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
portten52
uppen41
puppen37
toukun64
pirtten29
piun62
repsaa27
paaraa71
kalajoelta46
osikin39
tosikin52
piiraa69
paun63
loukun67
kuusamosta41
mii41
päkkää31
aala24
seinäjoelta37
lissa28

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 1,740 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,720 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.

Kemin kihlak (10)
Kemin seud (7)
Rytikari (3)

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.