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Karula

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems758
Verses12,472
Distinct words12,733
Collection years1873–1939
CollectorsPeeter Einer · Jaan (Johannes) Einer · Rudolf Tamm
Coordinates57.7084, 26.3858

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
iks91
imä62
oll61
tulõ39
tull51
esä60
mii42
kon40
ti38
lätsi56
kiä26
kotun34
mõtsa51
olõ25
tõne29
är31
nu36
läts39
tõni11
kaema34

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 758 poems collected in this place, 392 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 366 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). 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.

Vana-Antsla v. (231)
Patupera (79)
Ähijärve (42)
Jõepera (8)
Also recorded at Urvaste (15).
Haabsaare (4)
Patuperä (3)
references naming only the commune
Karula v. (81)
Väheru (34)
Apja (1)
references naming only the commune
Antsla v. (35)
Kaagjärve v. (31)
Tõlliste v. (9)
Korijärve (7)
Also recorded at Sangaste (56).
Kodijärve (2)
V.-Antsla v. (3)
Kaagvere v. (2)
Sangaste v. (1)
Mändiku (19)
Tohvri veski (9)
Karula rdtjm (7)
Suure-Apja (5)
Iigaste (1)
Apja as. (8)
Karula m. (1)
Nigle t. (3)
Karkküla t. (1)
Lauksilla t. (1)
Madsa t. (1)
Tinu t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (366)

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.