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Mikkeli

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems177
Verses983
Distinct words1,945
Collection years1848–1967
CollectorsLaina Hänninen · Olga Seppänen · Martti Pöyhönen
Coordinates61.7756, 27.2434

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kaimalan2
neitoniemelta2
apina4
äidiltänsä3
varastamista3
korotona2
heikkini2
kiipesi3
vanhoin3
pihkamatin2
karias2
leelik3
ninnan2
hengissä2
eukkoin2
eelik3
rykiä3
koskemista3
avantoo2
nahkahameen2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 177 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 139 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.

Ihastjärvi (23)
Also recorded at Mikkeli mlk (5).
Sairila (6)
Harjujärvi (3)
Ihastjarvi (2)
Also recorded at Mikkeli mlk (5).
Otava (2)
Also recorded at Mikkeli mlk (29).
Vanhalan (1)
Vuolimo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (139)

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.