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Kaarma

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems260
Verses5,929
Distinct words7,401
Collection years1872–1941
CollectorsDavid (Tavit) Jakson · Carl (Karl) Allas · Ida Nigol (Kallas)
Coordinates58.2825, 22.4256

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
emm12
vöta8
sösseke5
emmele6
sösse5
nutelema6
kaelakudruksed4
peele12
körva5
sap9
sukavarre4
kogunisti4
kuldavilla4
emme6
lagipuud4
öues4
möistis4
vöi5
tinavilla3
öue5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 260 poems collected in this place, 87 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.

Loona v. (25)
Hakjala (18)
Akjala (3)
references naming only the commune
Praakli v. (22)
Elme v. (19)
Kaarma v. (5)
Tahula (2)
Kaarma (1)
Tõrise (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.