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Pelkosenniemi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems36
Verses201
Distinct words465
Collection years1886–1963
CollectorsTilda Tasala · Sanakirjasäätiön välityksellä · Samuli Paulaharju
Coordinates67.1563, 27.4874

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
vanthut2
tervhempi2
turvakot2
rautakulta2
voitelin2
tuomittee2
poistan2
vahtena2
hivellystä2
vauvaa2
vejä2
leikkaat2
karitsoija1
vasikoija1
heinältäkin1
märännehestä1
typpehen1
tyrään1
kuivannehet1
kaajettu1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 36 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 28 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.

Kairala (3)
Tanhua (3)
Luiro (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (28)

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.