Valtimo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (JR corpus)
Poems	292
Verses	2,469
Distinct words	3,728
Collection years	1885–1967
Collectors	Oulasmaa, Siiri, Hautala
Coordinates	63.7418, 28.7829

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
poeka	10
eerikkaan	5
huuhtaan	4
sernan	3
lamppumme	3
marolassa	4
kiveräni	3
tupansa	3
elämme	5
marolaan	4
eerikasta	3
tahtomme	3
jyrkiin	4
jyristä	4
arveleisin	3
vaunuilla	3
muitaa	3
ruunukangasta	3
matikalta	5
jouseni	3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 292 poems collected in this place, 139 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 153 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.

Haapakylä (82)