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Repola

Runosong collection place · SKVR and JR corpora, Finnish Literature Society

CorpusSKVR and JR, Finnish Literature Society
Poems670
Verses22,447
Distinct words18,568
Collection years1834–1957
CollectorsUuno Karttunen · D. E. D. Europaeus · V. Osonen
Coordinates63.7359, 31.3256

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
eigä56
virkki74
poiga48
toatto35
kandajani24
läbi30
tagana25
kässen19
neidi21
kalovan17
koissa39
miero28
milma25
poiguoni18
kiehittele16
mie76
anopen18
kossen17
väinämöine28
emoni45

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 670 poems collected in this place, 513 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 157 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.

Omelie (107)
Saarenpää (104)
Lentiera (94)
Kiimavaara (51)
Suulaansaari (38)
Roukkula (28)
Luovutsaari (27)
Muujärvi (17)
Kipo (8)
Kolvasjärvi (8)
Lužma (8)
Pläkkäjä (7)
Suoverkka (6)
Kiimanvaara (3)
Virta (3)
Kiimaanvaara (1)
Kivivaara (1)
Lusma (1)
Omelia (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (157)

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.