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Ruskeala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems224
Verses2,014
Distinct words3,882
Collection years1847–1968
CollectorsAnni Pitkänen · Santeri Huovinen · Sylvi Sääski
Coordinates61.9211, 30.7076

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mie23
sie16
miuŋ3
liilo4
pikkirilli4
leilo4
lehmiäni4
myöhkäleen2
kaatamaahan2
mykersi2
murtamaahan2
arteen2
rapsahuuti2
löyspä2
tiiriäinen2
villanenpa2
liinasiemenestä2
huasiin2
hallihtii2
porstuhussa2

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 224 poems collected in this place, 77 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 147 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: t. = talu (farm). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kaalamonkylä (19)
Leppälahti (18)
Alalammi (7)
Issakanvaara (7)
Kaalamo (7)
Ruisselkä (5)
Vahvajärvi (4)
Haapavaara (3)
Särkisyrjä (2)
Koitto-Leppälahti (1)
Kontio (1)
Kontio-Leppälahti (1)
Kuokkaniemi (1)
Leppäselkä (1)
Leppälahti t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (147)

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.