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Sodankylä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems537
Verses3,040
Distinct words4,622
Collection years1854–1967
CollectorsPerä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Samuli Paulaharju · Jenny Paulaharju
Coordinates67.8055, 26.9422

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
piivon8
vassista7
kirotus7
tipanin8
viiputa10
iik12
purivat9
kurkusta9
vaaputa10
miik11
ykken6
taavon6
harmin8
kukkolan10
nuut10
rannin9
lokken7
piun14
paun14
paavon9

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 537 poems collected in this place, 185 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 352 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.

Korvanen (48)
Sompion-Lappi (42)
Riesto (28)
Mutenia (21)
Lokka (11)
Madetkoski (9)
Petkula (6)
Sampio (5)
Moskuvaara (3)
Torpan Paavo (3)
Kierinki (2)
Riipi (2)
Tanhua (2)
Unari (2)
Sattanen (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (352)

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.