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Kihnu

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems452
Verses13,386
Distinct words11,573
Collection years1884–1942
CollectorsJ. Korits · Mihkel Kurul · Tamberg, H.
Coordinates58.0688, 23.9760

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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
ond59
piäle43
mede53
meitel29
põlõ14
nied35
piale42
siõ10
pitkä13
sirgeli11
kiigujalad10
atil13
varalõ7
puõlõ7
süenüd7
naenõ8
sedä26
tulõb12
laamib13
tede19

Villages and communes the songs were collected in

Of the 452 poems collected in this place, 154 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 298 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.

Kihnu v. (125)
Lemsi (81)
Rootsi (20)
Mõisaküla (13)
Lina (10)
references naming only the commune
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 29 records)
Turu (24)
Sääre (4)
Mõisa (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (298)

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.