RunoVerse

Kursi

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems708
Verses11,825
Distinct words11,173
Collection years1880–1937
CollectorsKärt, Jaan, Paul
Coordinates58.5629, 26.2974

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
saies11
küsitavad8
luugiuksed6
õlletab6
sõtsele17
valsitükk5
tarelta6
mõistatavad8
andide6
noogutada6
trallitava5
pleesimaie5
vahetanud8
lõkku6
tipa11
saviauk7
söödilapp7
uhama4
kompa13
oaaia12

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 708 poems collected in this place, 463 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 245 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.

Puurmani v. (222)
Piknurme (50)
Laasme (15)
Tõrve (12)
Ruupa (10)
Jüri (6)
Altnurga (5)
Tammiku (5)
Kaave (4)
Allnuka (2)
Kirikuvalla (1)
references naming only the commune
Härjanurme v. (104)
Pikknurme (23)
Kurukse (9)
Pööra (2)
references naming only the commune
Laeva v. (67)
Metsnuka (2)
Metsanurga (1)
references naming only the commune
Puurmanni v. (28)
Kursi v. (4)
Utsali (4)
Sootaguse v. (4)
Väänikvere (4)
Saduküla v. (3)
Vana-Põltsamaa v. (2)
Elistvere v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 22 records)
Sadu (11)
Puurmani (7)
Puurmanni (4)
Jõuneküla (6)
Muruoja (6)
Valma tuulik (3)
Pööraküla (1)
Laeva as. (13)
Metsamõisa as. (11)
Puurmani as. (5)
Puurmanni m. (9)
Ausi m. (3)
Veski t. (4)
Lassi t. (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (245)

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.