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Suursaari

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems78
Verses329
Distinct words637
Collection years1910–1968
CollectorsLaina Porkka · Lauri Laiho · Aili Laiho
Coordinates60.0708, 27.0164

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tallinnasta5
sarvelliset5
kaskimaalla4
saijat5
nanna5
taati5
mesileivät4
tuleek3
kuorelliset3
kakut4
sepiköt2
äärel2
leppuu2
narvan5
sammaleena3
tissikin2
löylyst2
savolaisen3
saviniemen2
vingerpori3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 78 poems collected in this place, 38 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 40 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.

Kiiskinkylä (36)
Suurkylä (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (40)

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.