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Vitele

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems54
Verses627
Distinct words1,128
Collection years1882–1957
CollectorsMartti Haavio · A. O. Väisänen · Mikko Kontu
Coordinates61.3209, 32.5565

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
väimen4
timnanaine4
muidran4
leikkavuttu4
pistelit4
emändäd4
izändäd4
vove4
ruhtinaine3
puhei3
heidran3
prostoi3
pappilist3
raukkajaine3
sulkkuzed3
suoned4
rovun4
da6
raudoi3
ailahattomakse3

Villages and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 54 poems collected in this place, 52 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 2 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. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Rajakontu (27)
Rajakondu (7)
Kappu (5)
Yläpää (3)
Kavaino (2)
Suurimäki (2)
Harakkamäki (1)
Konnunkylä (1)
Kontuselkä (1)
Paušoila (1)
Ruokoski (1)
Mäki l. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (2)

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.