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Viljakkala

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems360
Verses1,208
Distinct words1,938
Collection years1853–1971
CollectorsMartti Mattila · T. E. Okkola · Helmi Hanhijoki
Coordinates61.7358, 23.4052

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
pidätä17
lutukainen7
latukainen7
tänäpänä12
syntistä10
kiviin11
pompi6
alakaan5
seiniä8
painakoon8
eränen4
kiili5
suittet10
ylemmäs5
vapsahainen5
naria9
kirppu13
säkeen5
vedestä8
kiukaan11

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 360 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 357 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.

Kuussalo (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (357)

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.