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Kihelkonna

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems337
Verses5,205
Distinct words6,738
Collection years1888–1941
CollectorsNikolai Kann · Aukusti Robert Niemi · Linda Köögardal
Coordinates58.2802, 21.9774

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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
peamees13
tiined10
kajurajal6
tihed9
sõbudest5
ruunukese9
suivillust6
renni11
paiskand7
äga10
poistega12
tappur8
utukese6
tükkis11
peel8
sajavanem10
peele16
vaestelastele7
auvakk4
kaerukesi5

Villages and communes the songs were collected in

Of the 337 poems collected in this place, 288 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 49 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); 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.

Lümanda v. (112)
Atla (32)
Karala (29)
Koimla (11)
Gotlandi (7)
Kulli (5)
Leetri (5)
Koki (2)
Leedri (2)
Liivaküla (2)
Põllu (2)
Koima (1)
Aandi vabadikukoht (2)
Mõisaküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Kihelkonna v. (104)
Viki (17)
Undva (14)
Kõõru (10)
Kõruse (7)
Üru (7)
Kuralase (6)
Ranna (6)
Vilsandi (6)
Kehila (5)
Kurevere (5)
Kalmu (4)
Vedruka (2)
Kuremetsa (1)
Kuusiku (1)
Also recorded at Mustjala (1).
Odalätsi (1)
Tagamõisa as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Tagamõisa v. (14)
Lümandu v. (8)
Austla (8)
Lillipe v. (6)
Loona v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (6 villages, 43 records)
Kotlandi (16)
Silla (15)
Nuudinõmme (6)
Lillipe (3)
Koblandi (2)
Taritu (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (49)

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.