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Kambja

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems396
Verses4,573
Distinct words6,279
Collection years1876–1939
CollectorsRichard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · Jaan Sossi · Peeter Tatz (Avarsoo)
Coordinates58.1767, 26.7479

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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
poig17
lätsi20
konne8
läits12
vanemike4
saavanem5
saavanema5
toane5
äga7
esä12
hiirerasvaga3
näi11
koobast4
minnu10
pimmel7
latse11
treisi4
sei11
pojakeist5
eints5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 396 poems collected in this place, 315 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 81 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); as. = asundus (settlement). 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.

Vana-Kuuste v. (130)
Kärevere (23)
Kaatsi (2)
Kõivu (2)
Sipe k (2)
Vana-Kuuste as. (25)
Kõrkküla as. (16)
Lubjaoja as. (11)
Küti as. (7)
references naming only the commune
Krüüdneri v. (54)
Kodijärve v. (47)
Also recorded at Nõo (3).
Savimäe (1)
Laane krjm (2)
Savimäe t. (5)
references naming only the commune
Kambja v. (37)
Pulli (5)
Väike-Kambja as. (2)
Kambja as. (1)
Suure-Kambja as. (1)
Suure-Kambja m. (6)
references naming only the commune
Prangli v. (15)
Kammeri v. (12)
Ivaste (1)
references naming only the commune
Suure-Kambja v. (12)
Vana-kuuste v. (5)
Veski v. (5)
Haaslava v. (4)
Also recorded at Võnnu (3) and Tartu-Maarja (1).
Mõra (2)
Aardla (1)
Uniküla (1)
Also recorded at Võnnu (3).
Unipiha v. (3)
Pühi (2)
references naming only the commune
Kodijarve v. (1)
Also recorded at Nõo (3).
Kodujärve v. (1)
Prangli algk (4)
Jursa t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (81)

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.