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Nilsiä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems505
Verses3,977
Distinct words5,942
Collection years1879–1967
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Väinö Kaukonen · Erkki Horttanainen
Coordinates63.2590, 28.1346

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
rakostamaa6
laskennaan6
urpuun6
pakottamaa6
raunioita6
kivistämää6
keskee9
kyntteliin9
tuomaasta9
ite18
kyynäree5
marriiaan4
jotta18
kolome12
lihoo8
mää19
marriiasta4
ristiin9
kynttelistä8
rististä7

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 505 poems collected in this place, 32 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 473 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.

Sänkimäki (9)
Palonurmi (5)
Siikajärvi (5)
Korpijärvi (2)
Sydänmaa (2)
Tikkasen saari (2)
Vuotjärvi (2)
Jumiskylä (1)
Koivumäki (?) (1)
Pajujärvi (1)
Paljakka (1)
Sankimäki (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (473)

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.