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Liminka

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems76
Verses601
Distinct words1,233
Collection years1678–1964
CollectorsPaavo Kytökorpi · E. F. Rautell · Rauha Vähäsarja
Coordinates64.7488, 25.4176

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
muorisesi3
tuntureihin3
kitoihin3
lappiolle3
nuolijaksi3
vierehinen3
wierehinen2
huhkana2
neihdy2
sieramehen3
työsi7
pippilän4
einehille3
ruijan3
tuntemahan6
kotis5
pohjolaista2
revän2
äkämätä2
luikertaja2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 76 poems collected in this place, 14 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 62 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.

Ketunmaa (13)
Temmesjoki (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (62)

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.