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Somero

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems384
Verses2,814
Distinct words3,484
Collection years1886–1967
CollectorsEemeli Vihervaara · K. V. Pettersson · Eeva Kilpelä
Coordinates60.6458, 23.4539

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
silkinsuanii5
oluttynnäri5
tuamas8
olkikahlo5
tuanelaan8
kilpijärvi5
tua12
tihanen4
mettään17
vikatin6
valkkia5
tuanelasa5
voikkosen5
tullesas7
mihes7
uttii5
yhreksän9
tissii4
kylläs8
ryyppäs10

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 384 poems collected in this place, 44 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 340 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.

Kultela (15)
Ihamäki (6)
Ollila (5)
Ahteenpää (4)
Häntälä (4)
Pitkäjärvi (3)
Sylvänä (2)
Tajula (2)
Hirsjärvi (1)
Hovila (1)
Oinaskylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (340)

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.