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Kuhmoinen

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems139
Verses1,074
Distinct words1,923
Collection years1886–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Jyväskylän lyseon konventti · M. Laine
Coordinates61.6183, 25.2003

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ysiken6
tukkis4
tosiken6
malten5
kulten5
milten4
kolo9
tulii3
kalten5
peelukka2
pumpam2
syrjempään2
ytimien2
mättäänalainen2
huulestasi2
laskeematta2
rattaista2
revenneeseen3
haavaan4
luki8

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 139 poems collected in this place, 24 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 115 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.

Puukkoinen (14)
Patavesi (5)
Suurijärvi (4)
Jämsa (?) (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (115)

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.