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Valtimo

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems292
Verses2,469
Distinct words3,728
Collection years1885–1967
CollectorsSiiri Oulasmaa · Jouko Hautala · Mandi Nevalainen
Coordinates63.7418, 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.

WordOccurrences
poeka10
eerikkaan5
huuhtaan4
sernan3
lamppumme3
marolassa4
kiveräni3
tupansa3
elämme5
marolaan4
eerikasta3
tahtomme3
jyrkiin4
jyristä4
arveleisin3
vaunuilla3
muitaa3
ruunukangasta3
matikalta5
jouseni3

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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Haapakylä (82)
Also recorded at Nurmes (2).
Sivakkavaara (20)
Koskenniemi (9)
Koppelo (7)
Heteranta (4)
Haapasalmi (3)
Yläkoski (3)
Häinälä (2)
Suhonen (2)
Elomäki (1)
Hiekkalahti (1)
Marjakangas (1)
Puukari (1)
Uramo (?) (1)
Urpiala (1)
Ylikylä (?) (1)
Also recorded at Nurmes (40).
Poems with no finer place recorded (153)

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.