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Hargla

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,066
Verses17,042
Distinct words14,742
Collection years1876–1942
CollectorsPaul Friedrich (Paulopriit) Voolaine (Pedmanson) · Tamberg, H. · Jaan Pähn
Coordinates57.5741, 26.5282

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
iks275
õks145
imä146
tulõ85
uma96
mi129
tarõ63
olõ61
is53
omma100
ellekene45
kiä52
varha27
läts89
ussõ44
mii61
suurõ43
oll75
näiu77
minnu59

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,066 poems collected in this place, 964 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 102 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); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough). 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.

Mõniste v. (641)
Suurküla (5)
Roogsoo (2)
Mehla (1)
references naming only the commune
Taheva v. (316)
Saru v. (30)
Vana-Roosa v. (3)
Also recorded at Rõuge (38).
Vastse-Roosa v. (3)
Laanemetsa v. (2)
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 18 records)
Taheva (7)
Mõniste (5)
Saru (5)
Lannamõtsa (1)
Koikküla (1)
Saheva (1)
Mõniste as. (12)
Vastse-Roosa as. (1)
Hargla al. (19)
Laurimäe t. (4)
Oosoli t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (102)

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.