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Tunkua

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems30
Verses262
Distinct words578
Collection years1931–1958
CollectorsPekka Aalto · Aili Virkkunen · Aleksi Maksinen
Coordinates64.2546, 33.2440

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
vatsutin2
vitsutin2
läbi2
pikkaraisien1
räpsytelen1
kookuan1
tempailen1
puotarot1
käärimet1
ahkerien1
kostuttaa1
juontajaksi1
ajelijaksi1
juopukaisten1
räätäliksi1
ruadojen1
ruadajaksi1
leppähäsi1
pistäjän1
akkahasi1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 30 poems collected in this place, 12 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 18 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.

Koivuniemi (10)
Kevättämäjärvi (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (18)

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.