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Paltamo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems273
Verses3,827
Distinct words5,042
Collection years1819–1967
CollectorsHeikki Haataja · Artturi Railonsala · R. von Becker
Coordinates64.4291, 27.7641

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
alastomasta18
jollamas7
vatettomasta6
vateottomasta6
ihosta20
tähänkös7
muojuvesi6
hernehesi7
reikihin8
halkeheli5
jalkahisa5
väkähänsi5
perinyt5
äkähänsi5
papusi7
sukuhusi6
arvosin5
juovus5
purskutteli5
vihansi6

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 273 poems collected in this place, 78 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 195 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.

Kiehimä (38)
Mieslahti (16)
Melalahti (9)
Raappananmäki (8)
Kiehimänkylä (2)
Variskylä (2)
Härmänmäki (1)
Kielimänkylä (1)
Kivesjärvi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (195)

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.