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Viipuri

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems305
Verses2,013
Distinct words3,455
Collection years1845–1967
CollectorsAlina Vaittinen · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari · Artturi Railonsala
Coordinates60.7456, 28.8677

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
temmitä10
liir13
pippan11
tiir12
lippan10
maataa9
toukon14
toskoma7
oskoma7
loukon14
varpoi11
pelistä14
virpoi11
tulevaks9
toskuma5
soraja5
tuoreeks11
luppaatsie3
oskuma5
kaataa10

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 305 poems collected in this place, 39 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 266 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.

Kilpeenjoki (7)
Tammisuo (6)
Myllykoski (5)
Suonion saari (5)
Kelkkala (4)
Neitsytniemi (3)
Ravansaari (2)
Esisaari (1)
Haka (1)
Hiekka (1)
Maaskola (1)
Näätälä (1)
Also recorded at Viipuri mlk (4).
Repola (1)
Uuras (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (266)

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.