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Vehmersalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems81
Verses520
Distinct words1,086
Collection years1926–1936
CollectorsAino Iivanainen · Emil Airaksinen · Lyyli Karhu
Coordinates62.7526, 28.0865

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
laalan3
kups4
kaeken2
lapsellen3
luataa2
kansaan2
tekköö4
ajappa2
kuataa2
konttiin3
söe2
kaareksissa1
ihvessä1
kipitäppa1
päekköö1
saanamökki1
saekkoo1
kaakalolla1
sepelkaalan1
solomiat1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 81 poems collected in this place, 45 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 36 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.

Räsälä (26)
Enonlahti (13)
Mustinlahti (3)
Enoniahti (1)
Litmaniemi (1)
Räsalä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (36)

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.