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Siikainen

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems296
Verses1,785
Distinct words2,744
Collection years1878–1959
CollectorsKyllikki Helomaa · H. Granqvist · Vuokko Raekallio-Teppo
Coordinates61.8635, 21.8865

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
piðä8
kleini9
kipus14
nimes16
vihas16
valaise6
majaa10
pidä16
itikalle4
siirrä10
euralle3
puhteeks3
ehtooks3
lempääläisten3
karkkulaisten3
onnes4
menestys5
luuliks4
sijaa9
sisältä10

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 296 poems collected in this place, 8 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 288 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.

Otamo (5)
Leväsjoki (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (288)

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.