Kose

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	1,051
Verses	18,440
Distinct words	16,936
Collection years	1838–1941
Collectors	Wiedemann (Võimula), Tõnu, Sommer
Coordinates	59.1453, 25.2047

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
piale	80
soab	29
voatamaie	22
koasa	22
väilla	14
hailli	9
jaare	15
poari	13
toadikene	16
toadi	15
toat	16
sial	37
viel	20
moale	14
moasikalle	5
joani	9
moada	12
pialta	16
soanud	10
vaiski	5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,051 poems collected in this place, 868 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 183 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.

Tuhala v. (207)

Ridaküla (6)

references naming only the commune

Ravila v. (125)

Maardu (7)

Vilama (2)

Voose (2)

Viskla (1)

E 53608 (8)

references naming only the commune

Tammiku v. (72)

Alavere v. (61)

Pikva (12)

Arava (8)

Rookla (8)

Jõeäärne (4)

Aravu (2)

Mõisaaseme (2)

Rasivere (2)

references naming only the commune

Palvere v. (55)

Lenderma (7)

ERA II 85, 455 (1) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 456 (1a) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 456/8 (2) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 459 (2a) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 459/60 (3) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 460 (4) — Kenabe t.
ERA II 85, 475 (12) — Kenabe t.

references naming only the commune

Pikva v. (54)

Harmi v. (38)

Triigi v. (34)

Ojasuu (20)

Soontaga (3)

Lutsu (2)

Kiruvere (1)

ERA II 31, 334 (85)

references naming only the commune

Kuivajõe v. (29)

Nõrava (7)

Kolu (6)

Oru (4)

Kärla (3)

Kanavere (1)

EÜS XI 1249 (98)

Karla (1)

EÜS XI 1222/3 (60)

references naming only the commune

Habaja v. (27)

Virle (7)

references naming only the commune

Oru v. (25)

Uuemõisa v. (23)

Nikolai v. (11)

Peningi v. (6)

Känkara (5)

Perila (1)

EÜS XI 1250 (99)

Kose-Uuemõisa v. (5)

Liiva (5)

Kose v. (4)

Särge (4)

E 64986/7 (1) — Reino t.
E 64987/8 (2) — Reino t.
E 64988 (3) — Reimo t.
E 64988 (4) — Reino t.

Hageri v. (3)

Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 4 records)

Kurena (4)

Rõue (18)

Lepiku (8)

Kose kirikuk (7)

Kantküla (3)

Nõmbra m. (62)

Rooküla m. (42)

Ravila m. (22)

Nõmme m. (?) (11)

Paunküla m. (6)

Kose al. (4)

Poems with no finer place recorded (183)

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.

mina lehed lambale (H I 7, 103 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
muie mullikad murula (H II 37, 463/4 (6)) — parallel in Kuusalu
kaeravaka katsujalle (H II 65, 366 (8)) — parallel in Haljala
nuored mehed ellad vennad (H II 16, 186 (2)) — parallel in Haljala
ei lõppend tuli toasta (EÜS XI 1193/4 (7)) — parallel in Ambla
tool oli seala kus ma tõstsin (H II 16, 110/11 (127)) — parallel in Ambla
mõisamees madalukene (H II 16, 180 (8)) — parallel in Harju-Jaani
seal ma sööksin sõsterida (H II 37, 388/9 (62)) — parallel in Harju-Jaani
tamm oli tartu teerajala (H II 37, 381 (52)) — parallel in Kadrina
olin mina enne härra orja (H II 37, 456/7 (50)) — parallel in Kadrina