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Polvijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems303
Verses1,808
Distinct words3,473
Collection years1865–1966
CollectorsInkeri Kuikka · Aino Varis · Frans Kärki
Coordinates62.8990, 29.3960

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hussan8
piikuna4
mehtään11
niko4
perjakka4
piälle8
loikan4
kakkaroo4
hös5
assukkoo2
kassukkoo2
rimennöstä2
ynse2
likkoo5
kummastaa3
metässä6
tyhjin4
huviksensa4
koe3
rimentö2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 303 poems collected in this place, 126 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 177 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.

Kuorevaara (59)
Kuorrevaara (27)
Horsma-aho (14)
Martonvaara (7)
Sotkuma (7)
Saarivaara (5)
Kinahmo (2)
Oriniemi (2)
Sola (2)
Sammakkovaara (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (177)

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.