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Kurkijoki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems982
Verses9,781
Distinct words11,855
Collection years1837–1967
CollectorsSulo Haltsonen · A. V. Koskimies · Jaakko Tereska
Coordinates61.3809, 29.8969

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mie184
sie129
kui46
miun52
kottii32
sulhokainen13
uo17
ois48
kanasellein9
ku61
ihhuu9
mielellinen13
vaatinut9
peäältä8
anopin18
sekä44
lintusein13
tulluo9
soppiloissa7
virvon18

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 982 poems collected in this place, 691 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 291 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.

Ihojärvi (144)
Tervu (144)
Otsanlahti (138)
Rummunsuo (102)
Riekkala (55)
Soskua (23)
Oksentiinmäki (16)
Rahola (11)
Riehkala (10)
Aromäki (8)
Elisenvaara (7)
Korpisaari (5)
Lumivaara (4)
Lepousmäki (3)
Kiekkala (2)
Kojo (2)
Oksentinmäki (2)
Otsonlahti (2)
Hummunsuo (1)
Ihojärven Rokkalampi (1)
Kuhkaa (1)
Also recorded at Lumivaara (1).
Kummunsuo (1)
Mikrilä (1)
Otsalahden Löyhkölä (1)
Otsalahti (1)
Pohjiinkylä (1)
Riekkola (1)
Räihänvaara (1)
Räihävaara (1)
Teuvu (1)
Vätikkä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (291)

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.