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Perho

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems269
Verses1,369
Distinct words2,261
Collection years1852–1949
CollectorsSamuli Paulaharju · Eino, S. Linna · Jenny Paulaharju
Coordinates63.2562, 24.4488

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
poke4
syömähammas4
nuotionaula3
piättää3
keitintangot3
väkää4
vaapana3
viipana3
yhdestoista3
kowan3
tysikin4
tipame2
haukkaaapan2
rupikäppi2
ruikkua2
määkyvä2
survokakku2
kantapallukkata2
hyrynlyry2
kolmikoskuksinen2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 269 poems collected in this place, 75 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 194 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.

Tiala (17)
Kukkopuro (14)
Jylhä (13)
Möttönen (12)
Haapala (5)
Rotmo (5)
Pirttikoski (3)
Haukkapuro (2)
Koivukoski (1)
Männikkö (1)
Niskala (1)
Okskoski (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (194)

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.