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Kuusjärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems84
Verses791
Distinct words1,600
Collection years1892–1966
CollectorsIlmari Manninen · J. P. Juvonen · P. Ollilainen
Coordinates62.7327, 29.0058

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pohjolam3
löylyjä3
rapahuvuun2
hurahuvuun2
huurina2
visvollev2
voijap2
punasaahka2
nursku2
riivattusi2
virus2
juurimainen2
keskehen2
hajasarvet2
kannettusi2
verna2
vierimäinen2
kastamaan2
märille3
kaonnutta2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 84 poems collected in this place, 19 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 65 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.

Kuminvaara (8)
Kuusjoki (8)
Maljasalmi (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (65)

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.