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Karksi

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems2,461
Verses67,791
Distinct words34,634
Collection years1868–1942
CollectorsJaak Kivisäk · Leena Kase (Kaur) · Anna Johanson
Coordinates58.0220, 25.6086

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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
näiu381
kosti270
ken164
kuuli327
esä232
lätsi238
läits160
üits149
ennekeine74
emä226
valadi76
katsi169
usse157
sõsare132
mõtsa199
ek71
latse151
ennekene159
võts87
maari115

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,461 poems collected in this place, 1,388 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,073 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.

Karksi v. (848)
Pilgu (28)
Ainja (26)
Pöögle (4)
Karu (3)
Tauga (2)
Mäeküla (42)
Tauga as. (30)
Karksi as. (14)
Murassoo as. (2)
Nuia al. (38)
Tedre t. (50)
Tauli t. (7)
references naming only the commune
Polli v. (430)
Sudiste (150)
Kassinurme (3)
Kivi (1)
Peraküla (5)
Lilli-Peraküla (3)
Polli m. (2)
references naming only the commune
Pöögle v. (53)
Tuhalaane v. (3)
Marguse t. (1)
references naming only the commune
Pulli v. (1)
Pärsti v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 6 records)
Lilli (5)
Sutiste (1)
Keremetsa (32)
Pilu (9)
Aniste k (4)
Kiini-Laane (4)
Sinejärve (4)
Kurimetsa (2)
Sepa tare (2)
Karksi Nuia (1)
Mäekülä (1)
Karksi-Nuia al. (7)
Viira t. (10)
Tindi t. (8)
Sarve t. (4)
Nurga t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (1,073)

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.