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Pistojärvi

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

CorpusSKVR and JR, Finnish Literature Society
Poems446
Verses12,927
Distinct words14,186
Collection years1836–1962
CollectorsIivari Ievala · Heikki Meriläinen · I. K. Inha
Coordinates65.6369, 30.6091

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
väinämöini19
vejen19
mie60
sanoiksi24
vammoilla13
armollini13
toini16
väinämöisen32
emoni29
neiti38
voitimeksi10
tiälä13
kirjokannet8
jottei25
virkki16
katsomaahe8
miepä20
vain43
takuata8
vuotti13

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 446 poems collected in this place, 322 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 124 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.

Suvanto (93)
Koljola (89)
Katoslampi (30)
Ohta (21)
Tuhkala (18)
Hirvisalmi (17)
Vuokkiniemi (16)
Hämehenkylä (8)
Tiiro (8)
Kantoniemi (6)
Tiirovaara (6)
Kiimasvaara (4)
Uhtua (4)
Akkala (2)
Suvannonkylä (2)
Kiimavaara (1)
Makarie (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (124)

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.