RunoVerse

Ruokolahti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems183
Verses1,113
Distinct words2,325
Collection years1816–1962
CollectorsKohvakka, Toini, Paavolainen
Coordinates61.3651, 28.8027

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
koukkuvai2
virsuj2
punikkini2
vuuveks5
kopeekan3
viinavillin3
ottamoa3
tulevaks5
tuppuraine2
poatta2
onkijai2
reijele2
mansikkini2
kivistämmeä2
pakottammoa2
hurjan3
juro2
pelistä6
ikälakki2
salvamie2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 183 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 161 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.

Immala (3)
Kekälemäki (3)
Utula (3)
Huhtasen (2)
Kuokkalampi (2)
Puttola (2)
Haikola (1)
Jukajärvi (1)
Nälkiälä (1)
Tainionkoski (1)
Vaittila (1)
Vuoksenniska (1)
Äitsaari (1)

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.