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Ristiina

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems237
Verses1,884
Distinct words3,524
Collection years1817–1963
CollectorsToini Kohvakka · Yrjö Toivonen · Erkki Osmonsalo
Coordinates61.4902, 27.3827

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tuut11
messää5
heija6
hienoja5
nuapurii3
tuokkoi2
mateet2
möyhkyä2
vahvoja3
puolillee3
pitkijä4
nappoo3
oluve2
tukialassa2
veiselle2
hajulla2
henkelle2
sorija3
messään3
toisee4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 237 poems collected in this place, 68 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 169 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.

Närhilä (19)
Minkkilä (18)
Mäkelä (16)
Himalansaari (12)
Heiniemi (1)
Koso (1)
Taipale (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (169)

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.