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Rovaniemi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems900
Verses5,910
Distinct words6,488
Collection years1810–1970
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Maija Yliraudanjoki · Valo Nuotio
Coordinates66.6536, 25.8321

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ysikin37
portten21
toukun35
piun36
tosikin31
virman21
paun35
loukun36
methän16
kojun13
ortten16
pinnaa12
pihka24
paratus11
tussan18
erään18
vittan20
mii18
paale10
poron23

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 900 poems collected in this place, 26 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 874 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.

Meltaus (12)
Hirvas (10)
Lohiniva (3)
Jaatila (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (874)

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.