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Kodavere

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems776
Verses11,856
Distinct words13,236
Collection years1836–1942
CollectorsJohannes Härms · Michael Koik · August Liiv
Coordinates58.5892, 27.0600

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
one109
piäle55
õma27
kõlmas19
tõene30
veljekene37
õli64
velje37
nennekene26
kõlmi12
nenne17
tõõseb16
poosid15
kääsin12
pihuna12
aadujalle9
õlid21
seenä16
mussa11
peäle45

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 776 poems collected in this place, 641 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 135 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); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Alatskivi v. (254)
Kallaste (42)
Lahepera (35)
Pusi (14)
Tõruvere (14)
Haapsipää (?) (11)
Kitselinna (9)
Naelavere (9)
Peatsekivi (3)
Peatskivi (3)
Tõravere (2)
references naming only the commune
Pala v. (78)
Nõva (19)
Moku (17)
Kodavere (3)
references naming only the commune
Kavastu v. (69)
Truiu (31)
Tähemaa (24)
Meoma (8)
Koosa (2)
Poksi (2)
references naming only the commune
Kokora v. (64)
Torila (40)
Pärsikivi (6)
Savastvere (5)
references naming only the commune
Rannamõisa v. (46)
Alliku v. (44)
Assikvere (44)
Peipsiäärne v. (20)
Varnja (20)
Saare v. (11)
Halliku v v. (?) (4)
Haavakivi (4)
Kodavere v. (2)
Pala-Jõe v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (7 villages, 82 records)
Sääritsa (35)
Raatvere (16)
Sassukvere (16)
Kolkja (8)
Tossumetsa (5)
Lümati (1)
Omedu (1)
Alliku as. (1)
Ranna as. (1)
Alatskivi m. (29)
Kallaste l. (7)
Kõnnupõllu t. (5)
Teelahkme t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (135)

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.