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Karula

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems786
Verses12,844
Distinct words13,036
Collection years1873–1940
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 poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
iks92
imä62
esä63
tull53
oll62
mii42
ti40
kon40
tulõ39
lätsi58
kotun34
kiä26
mõtsa52
omma41
nu36
tõne29
är31
vällä49
joba33
olõ25

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 786 poems collected in this place, 401 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 385 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)
Mändiku (19)
Tohvri veski (9)
references naming only the commune
Karula v. (85)
Väheru (34)
Iigaste (4)
Apja (1)
Karula rdtjm (7)
Apja as. (8)
Karula m. (1)
references naming only the commune
Antsla v. (35)
Kaagjärve v. (31)
Tõlliste v. (9)
Korijärve (7)
Also recorded at Sangaste (79).
Kodijärve (2)
Kaagvere v. (7)
V.-Antsla v. (3)
Sangaste v. (1)
Suure-Apja (5)
Iigaste m. (1)
Nigle t. (3)
Karkküla t. (1)
Lauksilla t. (1)
Madsa t. (1)
Tinu t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (385)

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.