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Soanlahti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems269
Verses7,330
Distinct words9,621
Collection years1845–1961
CollectorsD. E. D. Europaeus · Eino Kemppainen · Iivo Härkönen
Coordinates62.1201, 31.1235

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
virkki12
mäntymättähälle4
istuitschen4
imeisraukan5
väinämösen5
tuob6
silimin6
keinotteli4
virsilippahuan4
omenamarjat4
nähtyeni4
väinämöni5
kullankarvallinen4
mie21
yheksän23
urohot9
viatonta7
veno8
suin11
sekä23

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 269 poems collected in this place, 53 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 216 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.

Kuikka (31)
Also recorded at Korpiselkä (2).
Lehtomäki (5)
Kaipaanvaara (4)
Kiekua (3)
Havuvaara (2)
Kapakkavaara (2)
Prolanvaara (2)
Juttulampi (1)
Koirivaara (1)
Soanlahessa (1)
Ziipakka (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (216)

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.