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Kuopio

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems446
Verses3,140
Distinct words5,540
Collection years1789–1967
CollectorsLyyli Karhu · Paavo Räsänen · J. Hoffrén
Coordinates62.8885, 27.6217

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kalevala4
hereillä3
lautamies7
salasta4
toenen5
mehtään10
hussaa5
viijjees4
kolomaas5
tuleppa6
messan2
leijona2
loutu2
revontulissa2
maanpallolla2
perisi2
kooltansa2
henkisesti2
kulttuurimme2
kalevalaksi2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 446 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 408 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.

Ritisenlahti (12)
Kuopion seud (8)
Kuhasten (4)
Haminalahti (2)
Puutossalmi (2)
Also recorded at Kuopio mlk (20).
Hirvilahti (1)
Also recorded at Kuopio mlk (5).
Itkonniemi (1)
Kataisen Säyneisistä (1)
Kuopion tien (1)
Kärkkäiskylän Ranta-Keurula (1)
Niemenkylä (1)
Niirala (1)
Niittylahti (1)
Paukarlahti (1)
Puijon rinne (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (408)

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.