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Sotkamo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems823
Verses8,605
Distinct words11,380
Collection years1821–1968
CollectorsKaarle Krohn · P. Ollilainen · H. A. Nikki
Coordinates64.0588, 28.4852

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nimesi23
pahasi20
auringoinen8
itekki11
siikanen16
poeka11
iliman13
työsi17
kitis14
nytt9
pahan38
väinämöinen20
ihteesi6
metän16
piharikka8
venettä17
olunna9
vihansi5
tulta25
omat17

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 823 poems collected in this place, 161 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 662 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.

Naulavaara (36)
Pohjavaara (17)
Parkua (13)
Tipasoja (12)
Sotkamo-Kuhmoniemi-Paltamo (11)
Lontta (10)
Nuoskylä (7)
Ylisotkamonkylä (7)
Kuhmoniemi (?) (5)
Nuaskylä (5)
Ruokojärvi (4)
Yli-Sotkamonkylä (4)
Alasotkamon (3)
Kuhmoniemi-Paltamo (?) (3)
Naapurinvaara (3)
Ala-Sotkamon (2)
Haapaniemi (2)
Nissilä (2)
Saukko (2)
Ala-Sotkamonkylä (1)
Heinämäki (1)
Jormasjoki (1)
Jormaskylä (1)
Laakajärvi (1)
Lehtomäki (1)
Maanselkä (1)
Sapsonranta (1)
Soidinvaara (1)
Sotkamo-Kuhmoniemi (?) (1)
Sumsa (1)
Tuhkakylä (1)
Varisvaara (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (662)

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.