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Pyhäselkä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems50
Verses249
Distinct words584
Collection years1924–1963
CollectorsIda Venäläinen · T. E. Okkola · Liisa Leinonen
Coordinates62.4733, 30.0041

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
laulaahanne2
samul2
varkaan3
varastamista2
jotenkuten1
yhtäaikoo1
mitenkään1
kalapaikkana1
hauvikkaistaan1
kaloistaan1
rautaraks1
tokerloks1
nalikin1
keänikkeä1
reänikkeä1
niitähänse1
mollista1
vaimaa1
ruanehuinen1
vijanalanen1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 50 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 33 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.

Niittylahti (8)
Hammaslahti (6)
Suhmura (2)
Kumpu (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (33)

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.