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Kotka

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems96
Verses426
Distinct words762
Collection years1889–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Uuno Tirronen · Martti Pöyhönen
Coordinates60.4667, 26.9458

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
avantoo7
tenttel10
lammet9
enttel8
viisaat7
menttel6
loo9
loohen2
koffer2
jaanaa2
birgee2
sutset2
svannin2
sinipaita2
kunkelo2
sääkää2
rievää2
kahiluksen2
kääkää2
kiravalla2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 96 poems collected in this place, 11 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 85 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.

Halla (11)
Poems with no finer place recorded (85)

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.