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Salla

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems25
Verses191
Distinct words610
Collection years1848–1968
CollectorsOma Martti Paavolainen · Aukusti Karvonen · Elias Lönnrot
Coordinates67.0075, 29.4138

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
vaive2
lei4
mui2
rälli1
pitkämälli1
kuurme1
silpukkaa1
vekkun1
lihi1
mepe1
fane1
hepe1
meippis1
ihi1
mekkun1
mätähammas1
laulukyel1
parkkosaavi1
kousait1
liinapaiallaan1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 25 poems collected in this place, 17 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 8 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.

Karhujärvi (11)
Kuolajärvi (3)
Kursu (2)
Karhujarvi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (8)

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.