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Urjala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems145
Verses1,558
Distinct words2,697
Collection years1803–1965
CollectorsHämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Aino Perho · Elias Lönnrot
Coordinates61.0728, 23.5241

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nakkarasta4
appilan4
ninnen3
santraa2
inkee2
siniksi2
maarum2
kaarum2
tipperi2
sassentyy2
parmapyy2
jokkoma2
sinkan2
apupapin4
nalle4
makkarasta4
papupata4
tallamo2
tillamo2
jemmenpyy2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 145 poems collected in this place, 12 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 133 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.

Taipale (4)
Laukeela (2)
Kylmäk (?) (1)
Kölli (1)
Menoinen (1)
Raikko (1)
Raitaan (1)
Salmi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (133)

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.