Nilsiä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems	505
Verses	3,977
Distinct words	5,942
Collection years	1879–1967
Collectors	Krohn, Kaarle, Kaukonen
Coordinates	63.2590, 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.

Word	Occurrences
rakostamaa	6
laskennaan	6
urpuun	6
pakottamaa	6
raunioita	6
kivistämää	6
keskee	9
kyntteliin	9
tuomaasta	9
ite	18
kyynäree	5
marriiaan	4
jotta	18
kolome	12
lihoo	8
mää	19
marriiasta	4
ristiin	9
kynttelistä	8
rististä	7

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)