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Karuse

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems815
Verses17,080
Distinct words14,434
Collection years1845–1940
CollectorsMihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Oskar Philipp Kallas · Mihkel Lemmerkänd
Coordinates58.5836, 23.6769

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nied35
matsalu9
ies22
uied19
läksi36
langukesed36
akkasi10
aitümal16
mieste15
kojugi9
kauda19
sies17
kõinud5
õhtueile6
põllal20
mule15
nuttesse6
omiguile4
kostsi11
taane12

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 815 poems collected in this place, 557 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 258 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). 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.

Paatsalu v. (85)
Also recorded at Varbla (22).
Lõo (56)
Niitvälja (24)
Piibarootsi (16)
Torgu (4)
Viira (2)
references naming only the commune
Massu v. (63)
Also recorded at Hanila (262).
Puantse (35)
Laulepa (17)
Rätsepa (3)
references naming only the commune
Tuudi v. (46)
Lihula v. (41)
Tuudi (21)
Tuhu (7)
Vagivere (7)
Liustemäe (2)
Peantse (2)
Kumila (1)
references naming only the commune
Saastna v. (35)
Poantse (23)
Mäe (5)
references naming only the commune
Matsalu v. (19)
Also recorded at Lihula (3).
Paadremaa v. (10)
Also recorded at Varbla (63).
Tiinu (1)
references naming only the commune
Virtsu v. (9)
Hanila v. (6)
Pivarootsi (2)
references naming only the commune
Nehatu v. (6)
Elme v. (1)
Nihatu v. (1)
Paadermaa v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 107 records)
Petaluse (96)
Paiumaa (7)
Meelva (4)
Metsküla (81)
Paiumaa seek (51)
Vatla (28)
Poems with no finer place recorded (258)

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.