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Multia

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems63
Verses312
Distinct words655
Collection years1851–1963
CollectorsU. Karhumäki · Hämeen Museo · Oma Martti Paavolainen
Coordinates62.4809, 24.8742

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kankaasee3
tivoa2
punanuttunen2
koituvi2
saattelija2
kyymato2
kannukses3
tunturivuorta2
matelija2
vestävän2
ampiaine2
vahani2
kastettii2
salattu2
havupuu3
mettolasta2
mehiäinen2
valakea2
iskevän2
autuahan2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 63 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 61 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.

Vehkaankylä (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (61)

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.