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Kirbla

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems79
Verses1,053
Distinct words1,893
Collection years1896–1937
CollectorsRichard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · Aga Kiindok · Tamberg, H.
Coordinates58.6879, 23.9766

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
väksen2
männatukka2
kõrvus2
põrsapäid2
kukepuu2
patsid2
lepatukka2
kuusetukka2
vaimupäivi2
naisemehi2
moskvas2
verstapostid2
villakapetuid1
sajalised1
palgitukka1
silesirge1
laevatee1
linnutee1
pojanetid1
plahisevad1

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 79 poems collected in this place, 73 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 6 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kirbla v. (59)
Pagasi (7)
Kirbla (3)
references naming only the commune
Vanamõisa v. (10)
Võhma v. (2)
Võhma (2)
Kasari v. (1)
Uustalu (3)
Kloostri (1)
Kasari m. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (6)

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.