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Kärla

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems227
Verses4,345
Distinct words5,431
Collection years1888–1941
CollectorsJohannes Kerg · Jakob Mändmets · Karl Loiken
Coordinates58.2423, 22.2086

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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
emm16
ehtega7
liputised6
latid10
meitelt7
nõmmelinnukest5
lasuse6
sokusarvest5
söömaga8
tott7
emme7
liiderpuised3
tõite8
kamber9
põrmuseks5
joomaga6
nõudma7
meitel8
pillid9
põõnad11

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 227 poems collected in this place, 49 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. (10)
Kõrkküla (3)
Kuuse (1)
Kõõrküla (1)
Käesla as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Villages with no commune on the record (5 villages, 34 records)
Kergu (26)
Sauvere (4)
Mõnnuste (2)
Jõempa (1)
Mätaste (1)
Kirikuküla (1)
Matsi t. (3)
Kuusiku t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (178)

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.