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Nõo

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems267
Verses4,376
Distinct words5,776
Collection years1875–1935
CollectorsJaan (Tartlane) Tüklov · Endla Viilup · Peeter Aleksander Speek
Coordinates58.2769, 26.5425

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
latse20
oll19
mõtsa19
lätsi19
kukutiva3
hirmutiva3
toomiketse3
läts12
usse12
perseenna3
otsan13
tüteris5
sian5
näi10
liina10
üts10
sehen7
esa11
jäänunessa4
katsi10

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 267 poems collected in this place, 143 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 124 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); as. = asundus (settlement); 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.

Ropka v. (48)
Kulitsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Pangodi v. (40)
Tamsa (13)
references naming only the commune
Külitse v. (13)
Meeri v. (12)
Keeri (2)
references naming only the commune
Vastse-Nõo v. (9)
Luke v. (6)
Luke (1)
references naming only the commune
Tähtvere v. (4)
Also recorded at Tartu-Maarja (3).
Nõo (1)
references naming only the commune
Aru v. (3)
Karijärve (2)
references naming only the commune
Kodijärve v. (3)
Also recorded at Kambja (48).
Nõo v. (3)
Unipiha (2)
references naming only the commune
Tähkvere v. (2)
Rõhuküla (2)
Keeri as. (2)
Meeri as. (2)
Nõo al. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (124)

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.