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Merikarvia

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems214
Verses1,437
Distinct words2,185
Collection years1888–1955
CollectorsAili Laiho · Lauri Laiho · Oma Martti Paavolainen
Coordinates61.8893, 21.5777

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
knoppaa7
kaaken4
prunni4
toukurin3
simiken3
kuuken3
hahmosi2
hopiakenkät2
tyrus2
tou4
maaken3
hampsujansa2
sovittelee2
ämpärin5
neitsykäistä4
ennenkus3
siltaa5
solkiansa2
vihtomaa2
prunnin2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 214 poems collected in this place, 82 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 132 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.

Köörtilä (42)
Ylikylä (30)
Peippu (5)
Alakylä (3)
Riispyy (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (132)

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.