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Kanepi

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems687
Verses11,529
Distinct words12,767
Collection years1863–1941
CollectorsJ. Erlemann · Johan (Johann) Väggi (Vägi) · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)
Coordinates57.9840, 26.7774

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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
oll77
omma64
lätsi66
koton28
läts48
kon33
esä40
imä30
vele24
esa41
minno30
üts38
mano19
mino41
ima18
kaema30
vällä38
takan22
mõtsa37
iks32

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 687 poems collected in this place, 344 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 343 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. 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.

Kooraste v. (92)
Karsti (12)
Kella (3)
Alaküla (1)
Mõntsi (1)
references naming only the commune
Valgjärve v. (68)
Pikajärve (2)
references naming only the commune
Erastvere v. (52)
Kuuba (23)
Kanepi al. (1)
references naming only the commune
Vana-Piigaste v. (46)
Pikajärve v. (24)
Kiisa moonatalu (1)
references naming only the commune
Kõlleste v. (19)
Tamme v. (15)
Krootuse v. (12)
Kanepi v. (11)
Karste v. (3)
Kärgula v. (1)
Also recorded at Urvaste (26).
Rummi as. (1)
Kõlliste v. (1)
Põlgaste v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 1 record)
Valgjärve (1)
Võkeruse (9)
Karste m. (2)
Sigaoru m. (1)
Erastvere t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (343)

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.