RunoVerse

Puumala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems274
Verses2,128
Distinct words3,809
Collection years1858–1965
CollectorsLuukkonen, Kerttu, Heporauta
Coordinates61.5144, 28.2195

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ihova8
poes11
näköne6
tuome5
niuskahtana3
nousna3
phyi6
nousuaeka3
kekrii3
niveleestä3
ruoste8
poeka6
mehtää6
ihmise6
piälä5
merk3
ku19
saona3
mart3
pärttylii3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 274 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 235 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.

Rantasalmi (15)
Luukkola (13)
Harmaala (3)
Sepänkylä (3)
Kontila (2)
Kukonharju (1)
Niinimäki (1)
Sopala (1)

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.