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Sahalahti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems176
Verses1,336
Distinct words1,996
Collection years1852–1967
CollectorsEmilia Äijälä · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Eevert Helin
Coordinates61.4735, 24.4158

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
aapolma4
kattottiin3
sirkalle3
litaks3
litta4
syälä3
mailon4
kuttuttiin3
kuhunkas4
vaarttia3
myyräll2
hiiriraukkanen2
puikahlan2
punoilemaan2
tuamarilta2
lääkäriltä2
länkipohjan2
teskä2
sinkisolma2
ittis2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 176 poems collected in this place, 42 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 134 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.

Vehkajärvi (29)
Tursola (6)
Töykänä (3)
Eräj (?) (1)
Haapsaari (1)
Pakkala (1)
Salak (?) (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (134)

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.