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Tohmajärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems535
Verses8,951
Distinct words12,400
Collection years1828–1965
CollectorsJ. H. Hakulinen · Elli Laine · Esteri Vatanen
Coordinates62.2708, 30.3646

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
oŋ23
ruummiista13
immeisraukan9
tuomar14
kavehtimmaan7
kerallan7
emoŋ7
ihosta21
mie39
käytyin6
roavasraukar6
painuk6
otav8
päällen17
huokailtuin6
moaham6
ihe12
moarii8
puoleltan5
hengih5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 535 poems collected in this place, 163 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 372 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.

Kutsu (87)
Kemie (57)
Kaurila (5)
Saario (4)
Onkamo (3)
Akkala (1)
Jouhkola (1)
Pälkjärvi (1)
Pötsövaara (1)
Riikola (1)
Vatala (1)
Vepsasalo (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (372)

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.