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Ristijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems193
Verses2,108
Distinct words3,342
Collection years1860–1964
CollectorsKatri Koskelo · Kaarle Krohn · Helli Kuvaja
Coordinates64.4972, 28.4732

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
soekkolaan3
maekkolaan3
kähkönen3
karamätästä4
konkelolta4
pikkutillin3
kääröseni3
turpasi4
peukalossa3
lengolta3
vartaaseen2
paskantammaan2
polokoo2
maekkolassa2
leiposie2
karposie2
raohassa2
telkkeheksi2
turvettasi2
ainuitani2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 193 poems collected in this place, 70 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 123 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.

Salokylä (52)
Tuliharju (7)
Murto (2)
Mustavaara (2)
Ristijärven (2)
Hiirijärvi (1)
Hiisijärvi (1)
Koivumäki (1)
Koskenkylä (1)
Uva (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (123)

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.