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Nivala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems111
Verses691
Distinct words1,399
Collection years1884–1965
CollectorsArtturi Railonsala · Kaarle Krohn · Martti Putaala
Coordinates63.9331, 25.0341

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tuoristaina2
ammennettiin2
puottipa2
tullukki3
valma2
tallallalla2
tipottelin2
raaheen2
laialle2
pöyältä2
lentivät2
lehemiä2
raatari3
mehtään5
kultakellot2
mee5
potkittiin3
iitami3
pussukalla2
sissukalla2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 111 poems collected in this place, 7 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 104 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.

Ahde (3)
Ahteenkylä (2)
Järvikylä (1)
Sarjankylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (104)

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.