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Kursi

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems711
Verses11,856
Distinct words11,204
Collection years1880–1942
CollectorsPaul Ariste (Berg) · Aadu (Tidor, Ado) Tiidur · Georg (Jüri) Soo
Coordinates58.5629, 26.2974

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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
saies11
sõtsele17
küsitavad8
luugiuksed6
õlletab6
piale24
valsitükk5
tarelta6
onule23
mõistatavad8
kompa13
andide6
noogutada6
oaaia12
vahetanud8
tipa11
trallitava5
pleesimaie5
saviauk7
söödilapp7

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 711 poems collected in this place, 465 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 246 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. (223)
Piknurme (50)
Laasme (15)
Tõrve (12)
Ruupa (10)
Jüri (6)
Altnurga (5)
Tammiku (5)
Kaave (4)
Allnuka (2)
Kirikuvalla (1)
Puurmani as. (5)
Ausi m. (3)
references naming only the commune
Härjanurme v. (104)
Pikknurme (23)
Kurukse (9)
Pööra (2)
Jõuneküla (6)
Pööraküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Laeva v. (68)
Metsnuka (2)
Metsanurga (1)
Valma tuulik (3)
references naming only the commune
Puurmanni v. (33)
Muruoja (6)
Puurmanni m. (9)
references naming only the commune
Saduküla v. (11)
Metsamõisa as. (11)
Kursi v. (4)
Utsali (4)
Sootaguse v. (4)
Väänikvere (4)
Vana-Põltsamaa v. (2)
Elistvere v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 22 records)
Sadu (11)
Puurmani (7)
Puurmanni (4)
Laeva as. (13)
Veski t. (4)
Lassi t. (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (246)

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.