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Audru

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems841
Verses15,026
Distinct words12,758
Collection years1874–1939
CollectorsAdo Grenzstein · Ado Peet · H. Jaagu
Coordinates58.3806, 24.2243

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kaada17
mede48
ati22
õesed21
kuulatama21
külaõed11
latteruse5
att15
ilmatarka22
lateruse6
hulgutama7
marjakesed6
tänd6
pillutama11
külatüdrukud18
elmes5
üttelema10
sillulised6
viherpuu7
kaalas7

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 841 poems collected in this place, 286 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 555 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: v. = vald (commune); t. = talu (farm); m. = mõis (manor). 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.

Võlla v. (109)
Soomra (66)
Eassalu (3)
Silde (3)
references naming only the commune
Audru v. (69)
Also recorded at Pärnu (10).
Soeva (20)
Malda (5)
Põhara (5)
Sarvi (4)
Kõima (3)
Aadamsoo (1)
Kihlepa (1)
Lindi (1)
Oara (1)
references naming only the commune
Pootsi v. (44)
Also recorded at Tõstamaa (566).
Koonga v. (13)
Seli v. (9)
Jõõpre v. (6)
Taali v. (?) (3)
Tori v. (?) (3)
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 15 records)
Koksi (6)
Marksi (6)
Liu (2)
Also recorded at Tõstamaa (26).
Sõhara (1)
Easaare (27)
Selja (3)
Kabristi (2)
Mardika (2)
Marguse (2)
Oja (2)
Põnga veski (2)
Kautsi (1)
Konsi (1)
Madise (1)
Uilu (1)
Pootsi m. (1)
Kooli t. (21)
Mihkli t. (5)
Lambi t. (4)
Nõmme t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (555)

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.