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Pertunmaa

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems62
Verses277
Distinct words509
Collection years1926–1967
CollectorsKatri Kaukonen · Edla Ahvenainen · Erkki Ahvenainen
Coordinates61.4959, 26.4564

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hirvensalmen2
keputella3
turvaksein4
panettelloo3
kynttel4
puaval3
varaksein3
tuuvin4
hiekkapermanto2
piiskas2
äite2
tullutkaan3
tuut3
seittemännellä1
yhöksännellä1
köyrista1
etanna1
kaulaspoikki1
kuninga1
kurikkapiä1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 62 poems collected in this place, 40 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 22 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.

Joutsjärvi (11)
Mansikkamäki (11)
Kuortti (10)
Vastamäki (8)
Poems with no finer place recorded (22)

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.