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Ruovesi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems390
Verses2,717
Distinct words3,976
Collection years1840–1971
CollectorsAhto Luutonen · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Vilho Saariluoma
Coordinates61.9946, 24.0871

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
leksanteri5
nästän4
viti5
piilon8
mettään16
piilossa8
malten5
rallamo3
rillamo3
heräs4
kääver4
kulten5
tauluun7
kotio6
milten4
katajilla4
kolo9
nääver4
äite4
niiver4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 390 poems collected in this place, 15 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 375 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.

Visuvesi (7)
Pekkala (6)
Kekkonen (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (375)

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.