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Rantasalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems499
Verses6,579
Distinct words9,675
Collection years1692–1968
CollectorsSylvi Sääski · Kuopion lyseon toverikunta · Vilhelm Lavonius
Coordinates62.0675, 28.3376

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ensinkääni6
varmahan6
silemät9
souvetaanpas8
tätiläs8
saanna6
keisarimme7
ihmisraukat5
kaevot5
piäsenkö5
lehmee6
ett20
matkan14
leppäterttu7
sorolaan11
varsin15
tuut9
keralla13
raotasilla4
ihmisille8

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 499 poems collected in this place, 188 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 311 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Rantasalo (61)
Kolkontaipale (54)
Osikonmäki (29)
Hiismäki (14)
Ahvensalo (13)
Tiemassaari (5)
Porosalmi (4)
Lahdenkylä (2)
Tuusmäki (2)
Harjuranta (1)
Also recorded at Kangaslampi (9).
Hiismaki (1)
Koikontaipale (1)
Pirilä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (311)

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.