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Riistavesi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems61
Verses755
Distinct words1,663
Collection years1834–1961
CollectorsMartta Hyvärinen · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · K. A. Gottlund
Coordinates62.9311, 28.1285

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
antuvoon3
vuolaillen2
tammaissa2
hautelia2
suuvuttelen2
katottavillen2
taitak2
tiiäk2
minäik2
sopioon2
avu2
riiman2
neityt3
tunni2
tuokoon3
rueta2
ruohin2
moaria3
emoinen3
ampujainen2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 61 poems collected in this place, 25 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 36 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.

Melalahti (16)
Pirttijärvi (8)
Ryönä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (36)

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.