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Kesälahti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems205
Verses4,930
Distinct words7,337
Collection years1816–1962
CollectorsElias Lönnrot · Matti Pennanen · Jouko Hautala
Coordinates61.9396, 29.8049

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ej26
etc21
hajauta4
veneettä4
käytävillen4
mie25
neisyt6
jiesuksen9
sikloin5
papittomilta4
miun13
seihtemän9
väini3
rivestymässä3
rikkoamasta3
tiietänpä3
liittelesi3
pyytöpaikoillein3
tuonne26
muuollinen4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 205 poems collected in this place, 25 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 180 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.

Humuvaara (20)
Villala (5)
Poems with no finer place recorded (180)

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.