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Kitee

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems866
Verses15,864
Distinct words18,463
Collection years1815–1967
CollectorsO. A. F. Lönnbohm · Elias Lönnrot · Hannikainen ja Vinter
Coordinates62.0750, 30.0987

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mie89
ihe31
sie77
tuonne65
mehän14
muan23
yheksän46
etc21
pahan57
luonnotar9
kaho11
pohjolan21
ej17
väinämöisen23
tuosta41
synty24
hiien27
ehittiin8
rauta49
siun21

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 866 poems collected in this place, 176 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 690 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.

Kiteenlahti (41)
Riihijärvi (30)
Suorlahti (28)
Karisalmi (21)
Muljula (17)
Puhos (11)
Huikkola (6)
Juurikka (6)
Närsäkkälä (5)
Untamo (3)
Piimäjärvi (2)
Joensuu (1)
Kangaskylä (1)
Koivikko (1)
Kontiolahti (1)
Kontiolan (1)
Närsäkkäla (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (690)

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.