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Varpaisjärvi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (SKVR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (SKVR corpus)
Poems307
Verses2,372
Distinct words4,003
Collection years1845–1968
CollectorsVäinö Kaukonen · Kaarle Krohn · Jukka Savolainen
Coordinates63.4158, 27.8968

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
marriiaan8
kukkaroille6
urpuun7
märille12
kuivetut5
virus5
marriiasta5
siikanen13
keyristä5
rististä8
vuan9
keyriin4
juakkoon4
raivu3
kyntteliin7
tuomaasta7
hyöryläinen6
elä22
sivvaa3
itekkii4

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 307 poems collected in this place, 20 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 287 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.

Juminen (13)
Jumiskylä (4)
Mantina (1)
Paloiskylä (1)
Sutelankylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (287)

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.