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Keminmaa

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems349
Verses1,778
Distinct words1,996
Collection years1937–1968
CollectorsArtturi Railonsala · Aino Jänkälä
Coordinates65.8016, 24.5448

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pelistä21
putos22
auto9
piippu18
paketti4
mittari6
teelikka14
tietenkin6
istui34
mentten17
huulilla13
sängynpäässä4
mulliturpa6
uunilla13
entten18
pallo7
tulitikku7
tentten18
ämmiltä12
kummemmaks5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 349 poems collected in this place, 347 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 2 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.

Laurila (117)
Kirkonmäki (62)
Maula (59)
Lautiosaari (20)
Alapaakkola (17)
Liedakkala (15)
Törmä (15)
Länsikoski (12)
Ilmola (9)
Itäkoski (9)
Viitakoski (6)
Kivalo (3)
Hirmula (2)
Karihaara (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (2)

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.