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Karja

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems406
Verses6,226
Distinct words7,779
Collection years1872–1943
CollectorsVillem Mägi · Carl (Karl) Allas · Kaljo Lepp
Coordinates58.4802, 22.5912

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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
peäl19
sösar7
iisu5
emm11
vöi9
seäl16
taal14
vasto16
emme9
seier4
öues6
töuse6
vöta6
vöib6
hölma5
valeks5
körva6
öue7
enta4
vötsid5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 406 poems collected in this place, 194 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 212 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); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Leisi v. (126)
Purtsa (39)
Oitme (17)
Linnuse (12)
Ratla (6)
Jõiste (5)
Paaste (3)
Laugu (2)
Veski (2)
Peederga (1)
Triigi as. (3)
Parametsa as. (2)
Parasmetsa as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Pärsamaa v. (84)
Pammana (47)
Paju (4)
Luulupe (3)
Soosaare (2)
Linnaka (1)
Mätja (1)
Paroma (1)
Räägi (1)
references naming only the commune
Aru v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 4 records)
Nõmme (2)
Roobaka (1)
Triigi (1)
Liiküla (1)
Metsküla (1)
Ristivälja (1)
Leisi al. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (212)

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.