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Sonkajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems446
Verses2,772
Distinct words4,322
Collection years1858–1968
CollectorsVäinö Kaukonen · Kaarle Krohn · Liisa Juntunen
Coordinates63.7391, 27.6987

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
porohousu11
siikanen18
marriiaa5
sääneitä5
ite20
märkee8
porsaita8
säkkipiä4
ahvenia15
nimes11
pekka18
urpoo5
kitumaan6
sinnoot4
huiskamaan4
humalainen4
hyöryläinen6
rikka12
ristii5
kippee5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 446 poems collected in this place, 64 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 382 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.

Sälevä (19)
Sukeva (13)
Paisua (6)
Jyrkkä (5)
Rutakko (5)
Also recorded at Iisalmi (2).
Vänninmäki (5)
Vehmasjärvi (4)
Aittakoski (1)
Honkimo (1)
Lehtomäki (1)
Oinasjärvi (1)
Petäys (1)
Tahmela (1)
Toivakko (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (382)

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.