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Leppävirta

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems944
Verses5,214
Distinct words6,612
Collection years1830–1967
CollectorsJ. Karhu · Sylvi Sääski · Hannes Koskinen
Coordinates62.5404, 27.9141

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hakla26
hikla27
äät24
takla25
pelistä63
ööt21
maalaa41
pomena28
tuolissa28
kake12
kinge21
make14
dulle27
laade25
mike13
äidiltänsä19
ulle26
maalari43
paljonko33
vasemman19

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 944 poems collected in this place, 349 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 595 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.

Tuppurinmäki (55)
Kurjalanranta (54)
Sorsakoski (41)
Paukarlahti (31)
Leppämäki (27)
Mustinmäki (20)
Soinilansalmi (15)
Saamais (12)
Sarkaniemi (11)
Särkilahti (11)
Hiismäki (10)
Kalmalahti (10)
Kotalahti (8)
Kuhamäki (8)
Niinimäki (8)
Valkeamäki (8)
Saamainen (5)
Häikienkylä (3)
Lievola (3)
Monninmäki (3)
Herralan Nyyssölä (1)
Häikien (1)
Itä-Saamainen (1)
Kuronlahti (1)
Leppämaki (1)
Saahkarlahti (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (595)

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.