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Saarijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems2,078
Verses13,320
Distinct words11,827
Collection years1850–1967
CollectorsSaarijärven yhteiskoulu · Harju, Otto Mustakirja · Anshelm Koskenjaakko
Coordinates62.7165, 25.2890

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hussan43
hus83
pikarsilimä17
vaakuna25
puupeä19
pissan30
tunkiosi19
kaputella31
hytölän24
koakun29
sississäs27
mehtään49
poikkea23
pussissas27
sinisessä53
tikan64
ruskealla45
lullun20
leivota21
hytölään21

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 2,078 poems collected in this place, 254 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,824 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.

Mahlu (158)
Also recorded at Pylkönmäki (1).
Hirvaanmäki (66)
Kukonkylä (6)
Häkkilä (5)
Honkola (4)
Kalmari (3)
Lannevesi (3)
Kiimasjärvi (2)
Koskenkylä (2)
Warwikon (2)
Hannila (1)
Hännilä (1)
Warvikon (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (1,824)

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.