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Lumivaara

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems377
Verses1,868
Distinct words2,302
Collection years1850–1967
CollectorsSylvi Sääski · T. E. Okkola · Lääperi
Coordinates61.4479, 30.0754

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
varpoi30
virpoi30
viisaast13
tuomist12
siul24
allinlasta14
kukkiva11
tuoreeks22
riukusilla7
elämänonnea6
taputtelen13
taitavast10
miul19
panettelloo11
vitsat17
lipo15
virvon17
kynttel14
mie32
vitsa18

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 377 poems collected in this place, 324 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 53 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Kumola (263)
Harvia (24)
Huhtervu (18)
Kumoila (6)
Myllykylä (6)
Oinasvaara (3)
Huhtervo (1)
Kuhkaa (1)
Also recorded at Kurkijoki (1).
Kukkaankylä (1)
Luvansaari (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (53)

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.