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Merijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems164
Verses748
Distinct words1,281
Collection years1884–1967
CollectorsViljo Tervonen · E. F. Rautell · T. E. Okkola
Coordinates64.3160, 24.5469

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kävelinpä9
tukkis6
kapakaan5
anter5
kävelimpä7
häpemään7
sääri10
näkemään12
ämmänkäpä4
ukkis6
pippeli4
pennin10
kys5
noitaa4
ippeli4
ipen3
tonavaa3
ander3
tuolis4
satuja9

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 164 poems collected in this place, 10 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 154 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.

Ylipää (10)
Poems with no finer place recorded (154)

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.