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Koeru

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,635
Verses26,785
Distinct words20,350
Collection years1879–1939
CollectorsKarl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Jüri Välbe · Villem Viitmann
Coordinates58.9220, 26.0376

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
väila31
kosteleksi18
kojuje36
laalan27
pailo8
kauniesti6
tansul5
toadi13
kiigessepad16
mino31
voatamaie12
kaendelassa17
sureksi16
väilal10
tited16
laalemaie16
kiigesepad16
taputilge7
sahakure4
müraksi4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,635 poems collected in this place, 1,200 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 435 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). 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.

Väinjärve v. (455)
Visusti (43)
Kalitsa (37)
Rõhu (29)
Also recorded at Simuna (28).
Abaja (21)
Ramma (20)
Also recorded at Järva-Jaani (7).
Koeru (10)
Nahkanuia (6)
Vuti (6)
Ellavere (5)
Ervita (5)
Tudre (3)
Aruküla (1)
Vao (1)
references naming only the commune
Liigvalla v. (166)
Ao (49)
Lahu (37)
Rakke (26)
Also recorded at Simuna (11).
Edru (5)
Also recorded at Simuna (8).
Nõmmküla (3)
references naming only the commune
Kapu v. (141)
Varangu (35)
Pikevere (26)
Ellivere (25)
Hällivere (14)
Puhmu (12)
Tammiku (2)
references naming only the commune
Aruküla v. (119)
Salutaguse (75)
Also recorded at Järva-Jaani (36).
references naming only the commune
Võhmuta v. (95)
Also recorded at Järva-Jaani (281).
Metsla (95)
Also recorded at Järva-Jaani (2).
Vaali v. (89)
Ohuvere (1)
references naming only the commune
Vao v. (53)
Veinjärve v. (30)
Laanemetsa (6)
Valila (1)
references naming only the commune
Einmanni v. (11)
Rõhu v. (11)
Einmani v. (10)
Varangu v. (10)
Kuie (1)
references naming only the commune
Koigi v. (6)
Norra v. (4)
Ramma v. (2)
Heinjärve v. (1)
Koeru v. (1)
Piibe v. (1)
Also recorded at Simuna (12).
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 47 records)
Märja (26)
Merja (13)
Hao (7)
Kalma (1)
Liigvald (9)
Aavere varjup (8)
Uustalu (1)
Varangu as. (6)
Udeva m. (7)
Pedaniku m. (5)
Aruküla m. (2)
Rakke al. (4)
Also recorded at Simuna (5).
Altmäe t. (6)
Poems with no finer place recorded (435)

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.