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Puolanka

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems274
Verses2,415
Distinct words3,633
Collection years1860–1967
CollectorsAarne Salminen · Matti Hyttinen · Tuovi Kittelä
Coordinates64.8672, 27.7682

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nokilangan8
raatari8
syömmessä5
pikilangan8
kuppiseen5
iitami8
kellarisi7
poekalasta4
ovenhenkoon3
pitkänpirkon3
minäpästä3
pukusi3
napottimet6
nipottimet6
nostaja7
mou4
synnykään5
saet4
herttamaija3
majasi8

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 274 poems collected in this place, 116 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 158 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.

Kiiskilä (23)
Leipivaara (22)
Väyrylänkylä (16)
Puokio (15)
Kotilankylä (12)
Askankylä (10)
Kivarinjärvi (7)
Pyssyperä (4)
Auho (2)
Aittokylä (1)
Auhonkylä (1)
Auvo (1)
Kiverinjärvi (1)
Varpula (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (158)

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.