RunoVerse

Kihniö

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems199
Verses998
Distinct words1,565
Collection years1852–1968
CollectorsSalokannel, Akseli, Pohjankanervo
Coordinates62.2043, 23.2003

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
looke6
ampiainen14
sitike4
satike4
helvetissä13
pirä9
voitelee5
niinkun15
käjessä6
makonen4
maake4
syntisen5
puuta19
tyry5
rieskana3
vavolla3
periseinäs2
seiväsparista2
alinmaisen2
multten2

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.