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Pudasjärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems290
Verses1,930
Distinct words3,387
Collection years1885–1968
CollectorsKalle Niva · Maria Pihlaja · Samuli Paulaharju
Coordinates65.4598, 27.1498

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
valusi4
juoksisi3
viev3
kalakka3
kilikka3
piis7
kantoon5
yliseksi4
kynnykseksi4
jakeli4
kiekkasee2
liekkasee2
rumpaa2
perätalon2
kilisten2
akkakääpä2
miehottomaksi2
kipij2
viskah2
mustonen2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 290 poems collected in this place, 104 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 186 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.

Sotkajärvi (46)
Hetekylä (37)
Livonkylä (6)
Kollaja (4)
Hetemäki (3)
Iivattijärvi (3)
Sarakylä (2)
Hetejärvi (1)
Jongunkylä (1)
Pintamo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (186)

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.