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Kose

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,056
Verses18,521
Distinct words16,987
Collection years1838–1941
CollectorsTõnu Wiedemann (Võimula) · Jakob Martin Sommer · Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)
Coordinates59.1453, 25.2047

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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
piale80
soab29
koasa22
voatamaie22
väilla14
sial37
jaare15
hailli9
poari13
toadikene16
viel20
toat16
toadi15
moale14
pialta16
joani9
moada12
moasikalle5
pial20
soanud10

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,056 poems collected in this place, 872 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 184 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); 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.

Tuhala v. (207)
Ridaküla (6)
references naming only the commune
Ravila v. (179)
Maardu (7)
Vilama (2)
Voose (2)
Viskla (1)
Nõmbra m. (62)
Ravila m. (22)
Kose al. (4)
references naming only the commune
Tammiku v. (72)
Alavere v. (61)
Also recorded at Harju-Jaani (8).
Pikva (12)
Arava (8)
Rookla (8)
Jõeäärne (4)
Aravu (2)
Mõisaaseme (2)
Rasivere (2)
references naming only the commune
Palvere v. (55)
Lenderma (7)
references naming only the commune
Pikva v. (54)
Harmi v. (38)
Triigi v. (38)
Ojasuu (20)
Soontaga (3)
Lutsu (2)
Kiruvere (1)
Kantküla (3)
Paunküla m. (6)
references naming only the commune
Kuivajõe v. (29)
Nõrava (7)
Kolu (6)
Oru (4)
Kärla (3)
Kanavere (1)
Karla (1)
references naming only the commune
Oru v. (29)
Lepiku (8)
references naming only the commune
Habaja v. (27)
Virle (7)
references naming only the commune
Uuemõisa v. (23)
Rõue (18)
references naming only the commune
Nikolai v. (11)
Peningi v. (6)
Känkara (5)
Perila (1)
Also recorded at Harju-Jaani (131).
Kose-Uuemõisa v. (5)
Liiva (5)
Kose v. (4)
Särge (4)
Hageri v. (3)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 4 records)
Kurena (4)
Kose kirikuk (7)
Rooküla m. (42)
Nõmme m. (?) (11)
Poems with no finer place recorded (184)

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.