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Kontokki

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

CorpusSKVR and JR, Finnish Literature Society
Poems1,339
Verses34,421
Distinct words26,688
Collection years1820–1966
CollectorsVäinö Kaukonen · Elias Lönnrot · D. E. D. Europaeus
Coordinates64.6744, 30.9047

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
neiti143
toini53
sie147
vejen45
virkki54
väinämöini37
miun79
mie115
peällä55
poikuoni26
tulou33
väinämöisen67
väinämöinen75
heän35
käsin63
oluona21
sanoiksi41
moan50
kunne72
tuntomah21

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,339 poems collected in this place, 1,187 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 152 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: rand = coastal area. All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Akonlaksi (275)
Akonlahti (259)
Akonl (142)
Sappovaara (72)
Kostamus (68)
Kenttijärvi (62)
Vuokinsalmi (47)
Akonlahden (39)
Niskajärvi (34)
Lyttä (28)
Sappov (25)
Kostam (23)
Tetriniemi (21)
Niskaj (16)
Pistojärvi (12)
Vuokkiniemi (12)
Kenttij (11)
Mihheilä (11)
Vonkajärvi (11)
Koivujärvi (10)
Kostamuksen-Kenttijärven (5)
Munankilaksi (5)
Sappovoara (2)
Sappuvaara (2)
Ahonlahti (1)
Ahvenj (1)
Kentjärvi (1)
Kenttijäyvi (1)
Kontuvaara (1)
Latvaj (?) (1)
Niskajäyvi (1)
Nykyttilä (1)
Peatsamsitin (1)
Akonlahti rand (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (152)

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.