RunoVerse

Keila

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems374
Verses3,312
Distinct words4,514
Collection years1888–1940
CollectorsAugust, J., Soom
Coordinates59.3164, 24.4052

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
oaaia25
kapsaaia25
kompa20
kampa16
lepatriinu23
peoleo20
vinta13
sorus11
kimpa10
vänta12
tiit19
kausiga12
kilet11
vurr15
norus10
virdi7
vaa14
põldudesse3
kudli10
kaasas20

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 374 poems collected in this place, 287 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 87 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); al. = alevik (small borough); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Keila v. (128)
Tuula (16)
Kulna (11)
Valingu (11)
Joa (10)
Klooga (4)
Valkse (4)
Ilunurme (2)
Tarvasmäe (2)
Illunurme (1)
Käesalu (1)
Valksa (1)
references naming only the commune
Saue v. (53)
Vanamõisa (15)
Ääsmäe (3)
Jõgisoo (2)
Rahula (2)
Tänasilma (1)
Äämäe (1)
Üksnurme (1)
references naming only the commune
Harku v. (26)
Halliku (5)
references naming only the commune
Vääna v. (12)
Valingu v. (11)
Tapi (1)
references naming only the commune
Ranna v. (4)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 8 records)
Saue-Vanamõisa (6)
Kersalu (1)
Kumna (1)
Karjaküla (9)
Kirikumõisa (6)
Jälgimäe (3)
Lohusalu (3)
Testre kõrts (2)
Rajasepa (1)
Saue Vanamõisa (1)
Tuula as. (18)
Klooga as. (6)
Keila as. (2)
Valingu as. (2)
Kumna as. (1)
Saue as. (1)
Viti m. (9)
Äesma m. (6)
Keila m. (4)
Raudtee m. (4)
Joa m. (1)
Keila al. (40)
Nõmme l. (7)
Kopli t. (9)
Tani t. (2)

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.