RunoVerse

Kärla

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems222
Verses4,236
Distinct words5,295
Collection years1888–1939
CollectorsKerg, Johannes, Mändmets
Coordinates58.2423, 22.2086

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
emm16
ehtega7
liputised5
nõmmelinnukest5
meitelt7
latid9
söömaga8
lasuse5
tott7
sokusarvest4
liiderpuised3
emme7
põrmuseks5
joomaga6
vaadame3
totule5
emmel4
nõudma7
kamber9
meitel8

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 222 poems collected in this place, 44 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 178 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kärla v. (7)
Kõrkküla (3)
references naming only the commune
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 32 records)
Kergu (26)
Sauvere (4)
Jõempa (1)
Mätaste (1)
Kirikuküla (1)
Kõõrküla (1)
Käesla as. (1)
Matsi t. (3)
Kuusiku 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.