RunoVerse

Pohjois-Savo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems207
Verses4,220
Distinct words7,483
Collection years1700–1943
CollectorsArwidsson, A. I., Räihä
Coordinates63.1907, 27.4592

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ej20
pojka6
voje5
pohian5
kaiki7
teköbi3
aukian3
jottej3
jesuxen6
yhexän5
paneminen3
ruuvaxi3
ettej4
päivällen3
säkehissä3
ejkä4
nimettömiä4
pojs3
varova3
lienekkö3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 207 poems collected in this place, 4 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 203 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.

Suomen Karjala (?) (2)
Pohj-Savo (?) (1)
Pohjois-Savo Iisalmi (?) (1)

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.