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Laitila

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems196
Verses1,662
Distinct words2,864
Collection years1850–1967
CollectorsLinda Sonkkila · Lauri Laiho · Eemil Saarimaa
Coordinates60.8964, 21.7867

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pääl18
kuko10
viherkäisest4
kellastappu6
meijä10
mättäst5
mnu4
äppel5
päppel5
västäräntä3
mnul4
mnä5
täyttö4
siäl9
piparuuti5
krimike3
kaalintrönti3
jote3
piäne5
lulla14

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 196 poems collected in this place, 34 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 162 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.

Untamala (27)
Ropan (2)
Leimäki (1)
Pahojoki (1)
Seppälä (1)
Uusikirkko (1)
Yläne (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (162)

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.