RunoVerse

Käina

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems269
Verses3,238
Distinct words4,531
Collection years1890–1939
CollectorsEnnist, Enda, Gustav
Coordinates58.7968, 22.6547

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
sajanaine7
siidinupud5
viljalaevad5
kuldasnupud4
marjaoksa6
vastati5
lansisse3
kreet4
tõrvalauk4
patune5
süllaga3
vasklappi3
rõõmsamaks3
sauepauk3
saeni3
varreta3
tahita3
nõrkudes3
soolaseks3
purjuks3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 269 poems collected in this place, 193 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 76 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); al. = alevik (small borough). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Käina v. (98)
Ühtri (40)
Jausa (6)
Kaigutsi (5)
Määltse (4)
Luguse (3)
Nõmme (3)
Käina (1)
Määlise (1)
references naming only the commune
Vanamõisa v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (10 villages, 57 records)
Selja (29)
Kaigatsi (8)
Kreiandi (5)
Määvli (4)
Villemi (4)
Kaigotsi (2)
Mäeltse (2)
Männamaa (1)
Ristivälja (1)
Võnkla (1)
Seljaküla (15)
Tagaküla (9)
Kassari Esiküla (4)
Esiküla (2)
Mäealusküla (1)
Pendi-Tooma (1)
Pendi-Toome (1)
Seljakula (1)
Kassari m. (18)
Käina al. (15)
Väljaotsa t. (12)
Lahe t. (7)
Tuisu t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (76)

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.