RunoVerse

Kaarma

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems252
Verses5,828
Distinct words7,312
Collection years1872–1940
CollectorsKallas, Jakson, David (Tavit)
Coordinates58.2825, 22.4256

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
emm12
vöta8
sösseke5
kaelakudruksed4
sösse5
emmele6
nutelema6
körva5
kogunisti4
sukavarre4
öues4
kuldavilla4
tinavilla3
sap9
lagipuud4
möistis4
peele12
vöi5
emme6
ätses4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 252 poems collected in this place, 79 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 173 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); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Praakli v. (22)
Elme v. (19)
Loona v. (18)
Hakjala (11)
Akjala (3)
references naming only the commune
Kaarma v. (4)
Tahula (2)
Kaarma (1)
references naming only the commune
Kaarma-Suurevalla v. (3)
Lääne-Saare v. (2)
Uduvere (2)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 7 records)
Vaivere (6)
Kilbi (1)
Kaarma-Suurvald (1)
Kuressaare l. (4)
Poems with no finer place recorded (173)

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.