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Sortavala mlk

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems420
Verses1,905
Distinct words3,179
Collection years1828–1965
CollectorsMatti Moilanen · Toini Moilanen · Elli Laine
Coordinates61.6928, 30.6772

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
virvon13
mie22
höis4
tuomisitta3
moikka3
taputtelen5
varpoi7
virpoi7
rapsuttelen5
sie13
sittu5
tuutti3
muruu3
tuoreeks7
kujosiin2
mollottaa2
narttuu2
vaivatkoo2
viskokoo2
muahiinen2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 420 poems collected in this place, 21 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 399 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.

Möntsölä (7)
Mäkisalo (4)
Tuloila (2)
Hakala (1)
Helylä (1)
Also recorded at Sortavala (6).
Kuokkaniemi (1)
Also recorded at Sortavala (8).
Leppäselkä (1)
Rautlahti (1)
Rytty (1)
Also recorded at Sortavala (2).
Tulola (1)
Tuokslahti (1)
Also recorded at Sortavala (7).
Poems with no finer place recorded (399)

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.