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Sysmä

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems94
Verses612
Distinct words1,180
Collection years1860–1967
CollectorsKalervo Groundstroem · Hilma Vanamo · Lilli Lilius
Coordinates61.4986, 25.7581

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mehuisempi2
koiskalta2
jäseniltä3
tuulin4
sankaa2
koiskanen2
punaisempi2
tuntemattoman2
likistämään2
hiekkapermanto2
hörppäs2
luilta2
tiirun2
likkapaimen2
naullittannee1
vietettännee1
tuppaamaan1
rikkos1
etesman1
kirisemään1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 94 poems collected in this place, 7 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 87 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.

Käenmäki (5)
Onkiniemi (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (87)

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.