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Punkaharju

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems39
Verses222
Distinct words665
Collection years1935–1948
CollectorsVeikko Makkonen · Enni Karjalainen · Iida Vallaskangas
Coordinates61.7931, 29.4764

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kellukkeita1
kelvollisiksi1
varakseeni1
leyveks1
savakoiksi1
kyselöövät1
naitasihi1
kehtossakkii1
tieltäsi1
keinuttelin1
temmattasihi1
ravakoiksi1
ruavaa1
puasisa1
keikuttavan1
allakoi1
keitelivät1
vyötättynä1
toloparittii1
palkohen1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 39 poems collected in this place, 33 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 6 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.

Kalajärvi (28)
Kulennoinen (3)
Enanlahti (1)
Kauvonniemi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (6)

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.