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Varkaus

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems62
Verses990
Distinct words1,951
Collection years1884–1967
CollectorsOtto Puustinen · G. J. Vinter · Iivari Savolainen
Coordinates62.3542, 28.0301

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kakkaravarkaaks2
sortajat2
ahion2
suuremainen2
valettaviksi2
paiaan2
jkänä2
nähtyvän2
ilemoo2
tuhansista2
tarkkan2
jlman2
pistäte2
pienemäinen2
toisialle2
metsolaan2
saen2
siivissäs2
paistu2
liehuttelin2

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 62 poems collected in this place, 2 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 60 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.

Puurtila (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (60)

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.