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Kolga-Jaani

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems2,173
Verses56,974
Distinct words29,670
Collection years1870–1943
CollectorsJaan Bergmann · Jüri Orgusaar · Johannes Grauberg (1935. a.-st Raidla)
Coordinates58.4584, 25.9053

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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
piäle117
peäle165
vennäkene57
isä111
vella94
peältä39
emä109
emäkene75
siäl46
ollid79
ollin72
seäl63
niid60
isäkene34
metsä42
noorekesed50
pannin59
tütär64
vällä74
uhkeesti31

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,173 poems collected in this place, 1,302 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 871 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. 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.

Võisiku v. (644)
Also recorded at Põltsamaa (81) and Pilistvere (57).
Kaavere (238)
Leie (95)
Lalsi (58)
Odiste (9)
Otiste (6)
Orgu (5)
Rõstla (4)
Also recorded at Pilistvere (14).
Otiküla (3)
Kõrgessaare (5)
Rõika vabrik (4)
Küti t. (14)
references naming only the commune
Soosaare v. (537)
Vissuvere (106)
Taganurga (34)
Oti (31)
Kõue (5)
Paenaste as. (1)
Taressaare t. (18)
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)
Päovere as. (7)
Päovere m. (12)
Vaibla m. (12)
Kasari t. (32)
Saare t. (12)
Aasa t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (871)

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.