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Rautavaara

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems273
Verses3,378
Distinct words4,855
Collection years1884–1967
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · Lyyli Karhu · Viljo Korhonen
Coordinates63.5028, 28.4307

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
siikanen15
hyvee7
maallai4
mahuttavaan6
nimesi13
maahijainen4
suksilla6
mäntävään5
teköö11
kohtaloksi6
valtavanhemmalle6
kupahumaan6
rautavaaralle3
pelvotta3
korpu3
mielihyveä3
kiehitetty3
kylmyyttämään3
lihoo7
rikka13

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 273 poems collected in this place, 34 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 239 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.

Nimettömänmäki (7)
Yläluosta (7)
Raholanvaara (5)
Alaluosta (3)
Honkamäki (3)
Alakeyretti (2)
Kangaslahti (2)
Kärkkäälä (2)
Honka-aho (1)
Jukola (1)
Kellomäki (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (239)

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.