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Kolari

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems221
Verses900
Distinct words1,511
Collection years1881–1962
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Samuli Paulaharju · Jenny Paulaharju
Coordinates67.2643, 24.1499

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kapusteera6
portilta9
alatin7
mii12
taskisia5
vasaroita5
hiilipi5
haalipi5
korenon7
toosiki6
pyttypäämaijaa5
sirapin6
silkkisauvaa5
kaapin8
posa4
saipuasaaraa4
sukunen5
kuppaa5
yysiki5
virman6

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 221 poems collected in this place, 10 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 211 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.

Kurtakko (6)
Kolarinsaari (1)
Sieppijärvi (1)
Vaattojärvi (1)
Äkäslompolo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (211)

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.