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Suonenjoki

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems241
Verses2,692
Distinct words4,785
Collection years1858–1964
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Martti Pöyhönen · G. Laitinen
Coordinates62.6221, 27.1637

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kurkin5
härkin5
oil6
makkaroiks3
kuiks3
mielessäsj2
matkasj2
nieleksimmään2
pureksimmaan2
poejalla2
häiks3
maholehmän5
saarnata3
toeset2
huapoo2
katkuttele2
armosta3
tuoneen2
juhannussa2
kaviat2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 241 poems collected in this place, 60 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 181 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.

Särkinen (22)
Lylymäki (15)
Iisvesi (5)
Sianjalka (5)
Nuutila (4)
Kärkkäälässä (3)
Lempyy (1)
Lietenmäen kylä Finnilässä (1)
Markkala (1)
Salminen (1)
Toholahti (1)
Vehvilän (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (181)

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.