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Karuse

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems860
Verses17,865
Distinct words14,775
Collection years1845–1940
CollectorsOskar Philipp Kallas · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Mihkel Lemmerkänd
Coordinates58.5836, 23.6769

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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
nied36
läksi40
langukesed36
ies22
uied20
matsalu9
kauda21
aitümal17
akkasi10
mieste15
põllal21
nuttesse8
mule16
kojugi9
sies17
tieb15
käntsu10
õesed12
kostsi11
õhtueile6

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 860 poems collected in this place, 600 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 260 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. (109)
Also recorded at Varbla (47).
Lõo (56)
Niitvälja (24)
Äärepere (17)
Piibarootsi (16)
Õe (6)
Torgu (4)
Viira (2)
Nehatu (1)
references naming only the commune
Virtsu v. (81)
Metsküla (81)
Massu v. (63)
Also recorded at Hanila (276).
Puantse (35)
Laulepa (17)
Rätsepa (3)
references naming only the commune
Tuudi v. (46)
Lihula v. (42)
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
Paadremaa v. (20)
Also recorded at Varbla (63).
Tiinu (1)
references naming only the commune
Matsalu v. (19)
Also recorded at Lihula (3).
Hanila v. (10)
Pivarootsi (6)
references naming only the commune
Nehatu v. (6)
Paadermaa v. (4)
Elme v. (1)
Nihatu v. (1)
Paadreimaa v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 107 records)
Petaluse (96)
Paiumaa (7)
Meelva (4)
Paiumaa seek (51)
Vatla (28)
Poems with no finer place recorded (260)

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.