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Kiestinki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems252
Verses7,048
Distinct words9,108
Collection years1833–1966
CollectorsHeikki Meriläinen · A. O. Väisänen · Huoti Koski
Coordinates66.0381, 31.9522

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tulou18
toini15
aivoin13
veijon10
heittäjäistä9
ollaksena7
suopo9
sintsin8
soilta9
olitko9
sammalet10
kantajaista9
kuullaksena7
taputa8
rahatointa6
patviset6
sulilta8
metshän8
tukkapäistä7
vempelillä7

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 252 poems collected in this place, 220 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 32 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.

Käpäli (55)
Suurijärvi (41)
Sohjanansuu (37)
Vaarakylä (15)
Valasjoki (12)
Kokkosalmi (10)
Sohjenansuu (8)
Jelettijärvi (6)
Kananainen (6)
Kananaist (6)
Lohivaara (5)
Pontselensuu (4)
Akonlaksi (3)
Kiisjoki (3)
Latvajärvi (2)
Ponkalaksi (2)
Sohjanankylä (2)
Vuonninen (2)
Heinäjärvi (1)
Kanan (1)
Kananaisten külä (1)
Kananaisten kyl (1)
Karkoj (1)
Kenttijärvi (1)
Kiimasjärvi (1)
Lonkka (1)
Miinoa (1)
Ponsenenkylä (1)
Pääkönniemi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (32)

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.