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Virolahti

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems230
Verses1,629
Distinct words2,789
Collection years1839–1965
CollectorsForsberg (Alava), Vihtori · Saimi Rantanen · Oma Martti Paavolainen
Coordinates60.5749, 27.6785

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
ittekii2
ykisen2
vokisen2
tokkis2
tokisen2
jämmen2
jyynä2
sakken2
pittan2
seksen2
seurat2
läiskää3
martaaks2
vingutan2
hyrys2
jäänä2
tyksin2
lopsahtaa2
vikka3
paksuja3

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 230 poems collected in this place, 118 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 112 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.

Vaalimaa (39)
Kouki (23)
Sydänkylä (14)
Länsikylä (10)
Pyterlahti (9)
Säkäjärvi (7)
Ylä-Urpala (7)
Vaalimaankylä (5)
Häppilän (1)
Orslahti (1)
Sydänkyla (1)
Särkijärvi (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (112)

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.