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Lappajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems205
Verses2,540
Distinct words4,302
Collection years1839–1967
CollectorsJ. Fellman · Jaakko Loukola · Kustaa Saari
Coordinates63.2005, 23.5961

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kärsittynä3
vantuhitta3
villapa3
olkiin3
ruumenista5
tutkimahan3
mullen6
pujotellen2
karnehen2
liehumattomalla2
vaskitiukut2
vaamen2
longin2
vaivasillen2
kostjumalaa2
vyörynynnä2
liekistä2
solmeilet2
tanhuallen2
itetkin2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 205 poems collected in this place, 34 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 171 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.

Itäkylä (27)
Ollilankylä (3)
Kruunukylä (1)
Kärnä (1)
Ollila (1)
Tarvolan (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (171)

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.