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Peräpohjola

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems728
Verses2,838
Distinct words3,689
Collection years1830–1932
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · J. Fellman · G. A. Andersson
Coordinates67.7661, 26.4645

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
uppen43
puppen40
portten25
piiraa48
mii31
tysikin25
puuaa13
nuuaa15
anikka27
okka20
tanikka24
paaraa42
ysikin28
puks41
lee24
yy29
ii31
lokka16
sillalla33
pukkaa22

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 728 poems collected in this place, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 719 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.

Tornionjokilaakso (8)
Suomen Lappi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (719)

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.