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Virtasalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems561
Verses2,974
Distinct words4,005
Collection years1907–1952
CollectorsMartti Pöyhönen · Lyyli Paajanen · Iida Sievänen
Coordinates62.1245, 27.4643

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
onkee17
tuut20
viäntämää14
poes14
koevun9
voeta12
paesu8
poeka13
ottamaa17
ahve11
paemenpoeka8
viitaa9
oes7
yher6
havo6
kiiskijä8
kalakutella6
myötäsuka6
vastahaka6
paenu7

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 561 poems collected in this place, 403 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 158 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.

Tikkalanmäki (79)
Ankele (69)
Väisälä (64)
Valkeamäki (39)
Hällinmäki (35)
Kuosmala (29)
Pohjosmäki (25)
Montola (23)
Virtasalmi (12)
Hurskaala (8)
Pallola (8)
Kantala (4)
Also recorded at Haukivuori (1).
Valkeamaki (3)
Nykälä (2)
Häynteenlahti (1)
Häyteenlahti (1)
Pohjoismäki (1)
Salmenkylä (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (158)

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.