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Länsi-Inkeri

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems223
Verses6,545
Distinct words8,927
Collection years1858–1961
CollectorsJaako Länkelä · L. V. Pääkkönen · Väinö Salminen
Coordinates59.5464, 28.5042

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
emyt21
mie92
miun43
emoni38
isyt14
kui32
vellon18
vello19
vastaeli21
vaaliani10
vv10
vaiten10
vait13
siis21
kotikanani7
sisoni9
sulat10
sie26
kassapäät6
neion14

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 223 poems collected in this place, 4 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 219 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.

Vanhakylä (2)
Also recorded at Narvusi (294).
Joenperä (1)
Also recorded at Narvusi (105) and Kattila (1).
Tschasluha (?) (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (219)

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.