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Kuortane

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems131
Verses780
Distinct words1,566
Collection years1886–1962
CollectorsEsa Paavo-Kallio · F. A. Luukko · Toivo Vuorela
Coordinates62.7905, 23.5036

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
olokohon5
piilos4
jalaas3
oris3
valakoosella3
rappuja2
tauluhun3
kääs3
nastan2
eimin2
suukkuhun2
vengotellen3
paukkumahan2
antoo3
kouluhun3
kokoiseksi2
voiteloo2
mettähän3
paikatun2
taloohin2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 131 poems collected in this place, 6 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 125 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.

Ylijoki (4)
Mäyry (1)
Ruismäki (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (125)

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.