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Laatokan Karjala (Raja-Karjala)

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems99
Verses1,811
Distinct words3,384
Collection years1847–1949
CollectorsAlma Kallio · L. V. Pääkkönen · Henrik Laitinen
Coordinates62.0168, 31.6332

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
rakentelen3
riitsa3
nostatettu3
äityi3
hattaroiden3
selvinne3
aatuuti3
tauin5
kiusa3
taatussa2
vaurastui2
tuhatlukuja2
ihoisen2
katala7
vaarallinen3
siitäpä5
laatuisesti2
impisen2
toisenne2
loitommaksi2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 99 poems collected in this place, 44 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 55 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.

Itä-Karjala (39)
Raja-Karjala (4)
Suomen Karjala (?) (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (55)

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.