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Tervola

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems196
Verses1,173
Distinct words2,252
Collection years1904–1968
CollectorsSelina Palosaari · Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys · Väinö Salminen
Coordinates66.1429, 25.1007

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ilmoseksi6
puhimmän4
maahiset5
kultakulmat4
maam5
methän5
isänäle3
huviltä3
maahisilta3
tätti4
ijäksi8
tiekka3
emänäle3
terφeuttä3
puuän3
sinisilmät4
ajaksi5
kirkkotielä3
siunakkoo3
jeesuksen11

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 196 poems collected in this place, 27 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 169 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.

Lapinniemi (11)
Koivukylä (8)
Suolijoki (4)
Paakkola (2)
Kivioja (1)
Lehonkangas (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (169)

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.