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Kestilä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems276
Verses2,676
Distinct words4,487
Collection years1883–1958
CollectorsIlmari Mannermaa · Kaarle Krohn · Sigrid Hautala
Coordinates64.3310, 26.3716

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
siiviltä4
siveä6
päärynöitä3
liukkahampi4
polveen7
lentimiltä3
tulvilleen5
lihaan7
angervainen5
ampijainen6
siikanen8
mennäksesi5
ite12
väinämöinen11
venettä10
nimesi8
rikka10
kettupa3
tehtähissä3
pyöryläinen5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 276 poems collected in this place, 66 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 210 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.

Leiviskänranta (64)
Pihkalanranta (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (210)

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.