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Ylämaa

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

TraditionFinnish (JR corpus)
Poems92
Verses434
Distinct words954
Collection years1943–1965
CollectorsHilda Kälviäinen · Oma Martti Paavolainen · Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari
Coordinates60.7994, 28.0187

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mäkjä2
kuusamaan2
paksuja2
eiks2
keitto3
lappaja2
lipo3
piruja2
lumppui1
talkkui1
kyntörätei1
mitäpaskasempii1
salkkui1
syssäkkie1
roskasempii1
etanaetana1
räiskytellä1
kakia1
tanssikouluun1
iituma1

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 92 poems collected in this place, 60 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. 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.

Kälväinen (59)
Ihaksela (1)
Also recorded at Luumäki (1).
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.