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Nokia

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems417
Verses2,664
Distinct words2,911
Collection years1905–1967
CollectorsArtturi Railonsala · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Väinö Virtanen
Coordinates61.4767, 23.5053

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
talonpojat28
härkäteitä27
nosteli18
tupakkirulla49
hämäläisten22
kerjäläiset16
turkuteitä12
liehuu12
härkätietä21
takkiaan7
herrat29
mustalaiset8
keppiänsä7
lakkiaan8
tuodaan12
turkutietä11
pullossa8
akkerin12
kiehuu13
hämäläisen12

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 417 poems collected in this place, 56 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 361 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.

Koskenmäki (27)
Penttilänkylä (12)
Vihola (8)
Taivalkunta (3)
Also recorded at Pirkkala (1).
Lamminkylä (2)
Siuro (2)
Viikinharju (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (361)

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.