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Saari

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems129
Verses631
Distinct words1,301
Collection years1936–1965
CollectorsNelly Kosonen · Pentti Sairanen · Tyyne Rissanen
Coordinates61.6739, 29.7740

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
virvov13
varvov6
vitsallani4
miepä9
heinäpieleksestä3
heinäpieles3
sormikintaat2
sormikintaista2
pajuv2
varvallani2
oksallani2
säkenestä2
taputtelen4
ongele2
viisahasti4
sirittäjäksi2
rallatteli2
tädille2
onnii3
veto3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 129 poems collected in this place, 99 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 30 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Kirjavalan salo (30)
Tarnala (27)
Kesusmaa (25)
Also recorded at Parikkala (3).
Rasvaniemen salo (11)
Maironiemi (4)
Honkakylä (1)
Rasvaniemensalo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (30)

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.