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Lapua

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems189
Verses1,013
Distinct words1,891
Collection years1886–1967
CollectorsVäinö Tuomaala · J. M. Rosnell · Eila Leppisalo
Coordinates62.9412, 23.1479

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nalakki3
nilikki3
unehen4
lätistyt2
katajanoksilla3
mihnä3
lähären2
lätisty2
tappoo4
munkin3
voiaski2
ristimätöön2
mihinkäs5
äireen2
ruumenihin2
pikkulehemä2
ristiäs2
luuhammas6
kylykiä2
kolomi2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 189 poems collected in this place, 121 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 68 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.

Kauhajärvi (35)
Tiistenjoki (32)
Kuortane (25)
Alanurmo (10)
Haapakoski (9)
Nevala (7)
Hellanmaa (1)
Karhunkylä (1)
Talvitienkylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (68)

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.