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Lempäälä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems160
Verses2,436
Distinct words3,401
Collection years1884–1967
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · Elsa Haavisto · Frans Kärki
Coordinates61.3434, 23.7829

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
sauhua5
aimalaiset3
käyrät3
hahkalaiset3
nurkkisen3
aimalasta3
ennenkös4
pirettynä3
klavus3
tehit4
myyrä4
saattelin4
larolle3
aumasten3
sormustas3
sirkkasiipi2
sydämis2
viippula2
ippel2
vaappula2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 160 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 121 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.

Perälä (19)
Kuokkalankylä (7)
Jokipohja (3)
Aimala (2)
Nurkkila (2)
Hahkala (1)
Hakkala (1)
Hulavuuren (1)
Lahdenkylä (1)
Säijä (1)
Sääksjärvi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (121)

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.