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Taivalkoski

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems88
Verses911
Distinct words1,820
Collection years1882–1965
CollectorsSamuli Paulaharju · Jenny Huhtelin · Osmo Korosuo
Coordinates65.5749, 28.3828

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
solmutonta3
suolenpäätä3
paistakohon4
isäviisas2
paupalissa2
piupalissa2
verisateet2
verisajetta2
suikauttanut2
liikauttanut2
liittäköhön2
sulakoon4
tulvat3
patapölkyn2
saattakohon2
nauriitasi2
salpova2
hätänä2
souvamme2
tarpomassa2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 88 poems collected in this place, 29 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 59 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.

Metsäkylä (19)
Jokikylä (7)
Tyräjärvi (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (59)

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.