Oulu

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (JR corpus)
Poems	412
Verses	2,709
Distinct words	4,316
Collection years	1640–1968
Collectors	Putaala, Martti, Matti
Coordinates	65.0300, 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.

Word	Occurrences
kuusamosta	14
kalajoelta	14
koskelta	15
neitoniemeltä	10
seinäjoelta	12
yrtti	15
kyrölassilta	8
kotoisin	13
karjalainen	15
yhdeksäs	14
ylikylästä	9
pihlajainen	15
kuudes	15
viides	16
kahdeksas	13
nokilangan	7
iitami	8
seitsemäs	14
aatami	9
pieruja	3

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)