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Kivijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems494
Verses6,416
Distinct words7,875
Collection years1828–1960
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · K. J. Jalkanen · Elsa Kotilainen
Coordinates63.1605, 25.0742

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
palasit10
kivivuorta10
rammaksi9
päähinen9
vetäänty6
kuohutetaan6
ähäytti6
kiiättäissä6
haavolle7
helkyttävän5
herkespä5
painaisen6
kuiviin7
nenässä21
sonta12
turmele10
siikanen15
tyttölapsen11
kuselta6
kymmenennen12

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 494 poems collected in this place, 30 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 464 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Puralankylä (23)
Kinnulanranta (4)
Lemetti (1)
Puralankyla (1)
Saunakylä (1)
Also recorded at Karstula (1).
Poems with no finer place recorded (464)

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.