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Porsanki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems39
Verses129
Distinct words270
Collection years1930–1946
CollectorsJenny Paulaharju · Samuli Paulaharju
Coordinates70.2152, 25.1766

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kesätietä3
kothin3
snaaju2
jie2
omaisuuteni2
bautsas2
gost2
ropsu2
molkko2
molotoi2
jottan2
herättää5
päivällisen2
tokku2
mane2
oikasee3
kalkka2
virvottaa3
vittanvarpu2
kintta2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 39 poems collected in this place, 28 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 11 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.

Pyssyjoki (20)
Lemminjoki (7)
Lemminvuono (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (11)

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.