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Kuujärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems91
Verses1,042
Distinct words1,639
Collection years1942–1943
CollectorsLauri Laiho · Aimo Turunen
Coordinates61.2254, 33.7981

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
igaks29
kofaamin17
ilmaatseks17
täl32
muga25
täks20
minutal15
tsoassul15
rabal14
veek16
amin22
kud15
kuldaane13
ilmaazeks10
kivek10
ziivataane8
peldoh10
kuldaazen6
kuldaazes6
aminin6

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 91 poems collected in this place, 84 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 7 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.

Tuoskola (23)
Syrjä (22)
Kukoiniemi (18)
Sola (7)
Metsoiniemi (6)
Ylitsi (5)
Agveh (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (7)

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.