RunoVerse

Kolga-Jaani

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems2,168
Verses56,943
Distinct words29,653
Collection years1870–1939
CollectorsJaan, Jüri, Bergmann
Coordinates58.4584, 25.9053

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
piäle117
vennäkene57
peäle165
isä111
vella94
peältä39
siäl46
emäkene75
emä109
isäkene34
metsä42
ollid79
seäl63
niid60
ollin72
peällä14
palviille18
noorekesed50
tütär64
uhkeesti31

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,168 poems collected in this place, 1,301 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 867 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Võisiku v. (640)
Kaavere (238)
Leie (95)
Lalsi (58)
Odiste (9)
Otiste (6)
Orgu (5)
Rõstla (4)
Otiküla (3)
references naming only the commune
Soosaare v. (532)
Vissuvere (105)
Taganurga (34)
Oti (31)
Kõue (5)
references naming only the commune
Uue-Võidu v. (29)
Asu (20)
Parika (9)
Kolga-Jaani v. (28)
Oorgu (16)
Päovere (1)
references naming only the commune
Rõika v. (14)
Kuigatsi v. (3)
Võõsiku v. (2)
Leie v. (1)
Oiu v. (1)
Võisike v. (1)
Kõrgessaare (5)
Rõika vabrik (4)
Päovere as. (7)
Paenaste as. (1)
Päovere m. (12)
Vaibla m. (12)
Kasari t. (32)
Taressaare t. (18)
Küti t. (14)
Saare t. (12)
Aasa t. (1)

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.