Sonkajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems	446
Verses	2,772
Distinct words	4,322
Collection years	1858–1968
Collectors	Väinö, Kaukonen, Krohn
Coordinates	63.7391, 27.6987

Explore Sonkajärvi in the interactive places map · regional heritage profile

Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
porohousu	11
siikanen	18
marriiaa	5
sääneitä	5
ite	20
märkee	8
porsaita	8
säkkipiä	4
ahvenia	15
nimes	11
pekka	18
urpoo	5
kitumaan	6
sinnoot	4
huiskamaan	4
humalainen	4
hyöryläinen	6
rikka	12
ristii	5
kippee	5

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.

Sälevä (19)