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Vimpeli

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems54
Verses754
Distinct words1,525
Collection years1931–1967
CollectorsAleksi Lehtimäki · Ilmari Tuomela · Etelä-Pohjanmaan Nuorisoseura
Coordinates63.1831, 23.9505

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
hevosvoimalla2
rakennutti2
näärännäppy3
vimpelissä2
kalaisista2
könnää2
nahkamatti2
koukkuja2
jannen2
laijassa2
syyteeseen1
vimmastui1
knaapein1
mestau1
katseelaan1
paareilta1
impyä1
kuuselaan1
löydettehin1
rihkalan1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 54 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 32 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.

Sääksjärvi (8)
Pokela (6)
Hietoja (5)
Sääksvesi (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (32)

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.