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Sääksmäki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems324
Verses4,427
Distinct words4,020
Collection years1824–1967
CollectorsAukusti Salo · A. A. Borenius · Martti Rapola
Coordinates61.2138, 24.0527

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
neiro20
ritari28
elkeni12
vetkasit12
ääntämme14
tuiskasit14
astiata15
älkäsme11
nuari27
halkona13
liänet12
turjotella10
elkiäs10
lalmanti10
pirisemässä12
kalaparvi11
pinona14
mataleena13
kiulusessa9
kiulunen9

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 324 poems collected in this place, 46 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 278 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.

Ritvala (37)
Metsäkansa (3)
Sääkm (2)
Huittula (1)
Janakk (?) (1)
Kapakka (1)
Tarttila (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (278)

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.