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Luhanka

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems110
Verses641
Distinct words1,309
Collection years1885–1961
CollectorsHelmi Halonen · Aino Hänninen · Lilli Lilius
Coordinates61.7869, 25.7191

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kärsiä4
sankaa3
lipin4
tipin3
ihte4
vaasten2
viisten2
yösten2
papittomaan2
tilleris3
tarttunut3
tuosten2
niitu2
lautoo2
teikkaa2
voirasiat2
nannan3
hautoo3
mänee3
lautoon2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 110 poems collected in this place, 30 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 80 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.

Tammijärvi (29)
Tomola (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (80)

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.