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Tottijärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems142
Verses2,918
Distinct words3,284
Collection years1829–1962
CollectorsJukka Rekola · Frans Kärki · J. Lindroos
Coordinates61.3809, 23.3765

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
poikalastas8
klavus7
karotat7
vaskiavain8
huarra7
elinainen8
laukosta7
viipyväsi6
myyrä8
palkollista6
larolle6
korasta6
kolkkina6
prinssin6
tulennasta7
vaskivakka7
kolki6
vaikkas7
elinan6
pirettynä5

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 142 poems collected in this place, 45 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 97 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.

Sorva (31)
Sarva (3)
Tenviikki (3)
Joenpohja (2)
Pajulahti (2)
Joutsijoki (1)
Metsäkylä (1)
Pohjanloukko (1)
Tenvik (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (97)

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.