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Kemijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems378
Verses2,061
Distinct words2,251
Collection years1854–1961
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · J. V. Murman · Heikki Meriläinen
Coordinates66.7054, 27.3735

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
paale10
yksis16
eet14
toukun19
virkkulan12
mii15
aale9
rallailee8
okka10
kuusamosta14
ylikylästä14
kure10
töörön8
lee14
rahasäkki11
loukun20
riiki9
lestan14
mettässä12
koskelta14

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 378 poems collected in this place, 4 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 374 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.

Oinas (3)
Sodankylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (374)

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.