RunoVerse

Kanepi

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems685
Verses11,452
Distinct words12,698
Collection years1863–1941
CollectorsJ., Erlemann, Väggi (Vägi)
Coordinates57.9840, 26.7774

Explore Kanepi in the interactive places map · regional heritage profile

Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
oll77
omma64
lätsi66
koton28
läts48
kon33
vele24
minno30
imä30
esä40
üts38
esa41
mano19
kaema30
ima18
mõtsa37
takan22
illos17
iks32
umma18

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 685 poems collected in this place, 344 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 341 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); al. = alevik (small borough). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kooraste v. (92)
Karsti (12)
Kella (3)
Alaküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Valgjärve v. (68)
Pikajärve (2)
references naming only the commune
Erastvere v. (52)
Kuuba (23)
references naming only the commune
Vana-Piigaste v. (46)
Pikajärve v. (24)
Kõlleste v. (19)
Tamme v. (15)
Krootuse v. (12)
Kanepi v. (11)
Karste v. (3)
Kärgula v. (1)
Kõlliste v. (1)
Põlgaste v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 1 record)
Valgjärve (1)
Võkeruse (9)
Kiisa moonatalu (1)
Mõntsi (1)
Rummi as. (1)
Karste m. (2)
Sigaoru m. (1)
Kanepi al. (1)
Erastvere t. (1)

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.