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Oulu

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems412
Verses2,709
Distinct words4,316
Collection years1640–1968
CollectorsMartti Putaala · Heimo Heikkilä · Matti Kenttämaa
Coordinates65.0300, 25.4857

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kuusamosta14
kalajoelta14
koskelta15
neitoniemeltä10
seinäjoelta12
yrtti15
kyrölassilta8
kotoisin13
karjalainen15
yhdeksäs14
ylikylästä9
pihlajainen15
kuudes15
viides16
kahdeksas13
nokilangan7
iitami8
seitsemäs14
aatami9
pieruja3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 412 poems collected in this place, 28 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 384 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.

Niska (13)
Oulun seud (3)
Niska pys (2)
Oulun kihlakunta (2)
Välivainio (2)
Koskelankylä (1)
Oulun seutut (?) (1)
Pateniemi (1)
Sotkamo (1)
Toppila (1)
Tuira (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (384)

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.