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Riihimäki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems104
Verses507
Distinct words706
Collection years1922–1967
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Oma Martti Paavolainen · T. E. Okkola
Coordinates60.7333, 24.7667

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tannun6
annun6
punaseen5
vo4
naarasteiri2
frokan2
yde2
glop2
engelsyra2
talleriainen2
baakars2
vailla9
pulleriainen2
viipula7
varttia9
satulaseppä2
sokkerrotta2
sju2
kauhaan3
tallukoita8

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 104 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 102 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.

Arolammi (2)
Also recorded at Hausjärvi (2) and Hyvinkää (1).
Poems with no finer place recorded (102)

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.