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Lemi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems484
Verses3,510
Distinct words4,995
Collection years1876–1967
CollectorsToini Kohvakka · Henrik Kouvo · Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori
Coordinates61.0790, 27.8124

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tuluo9
houva11
hyppeä9
vattais7
sotkulle6
metteä6
kotii13
uroloa5
ettimeä6
suureŋ6
roatamoa6
liinoa7
kaseksia6
ite23
kivem8
tillis10
etti7
hyppäis8
heija11
tätil5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 484 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 445 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.

Savitaipale (13)
Huttula (11)
Vainikkala (3)
Pölläsenkylä (2)
Suomalaisenkylä (2)
Ahtiala (1)
Hyvärinkylä (1)
Kaamaniemi (1)
Koamaniemi (1)
Kärmeniemi (1)
Lami (1)
Sorvarin (1)
Urolan (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (445)

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.