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Põltsamaa

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,447
Verses26,873
Distinct words20,318
Collection years1869–1939
CollectorsMartin Luu · Jaan Raavel · Karl Moks
Coordinates58.6156, 26.0508

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
noorekesed37
neitsikesed56
luugiuksed7
laalemaie23
piale34
koob19
õpimassa8
pööraje5
hoielda11
tallerpuida9
osanud24
kuasa12
meste12
neidised14
tallun6
tõisepidi5
niidivööda8
punapärgade7
marjavars8
kästa6

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,447 poems collected in this place, 944 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 503 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); l. = linn (town). 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.

Kaavere v. (248)
Kurista v. (171)
Aidu (89)
Vägari (18)
Sulustvere (7)
Siimusti (3)
Aida (2)
Vähari (2)
Vägara (1)
references naming only the commune
Vana-Põltsamaa v. (130)
Vitsjärve (11)
Annikvere (8)
Paduvere (5)
Umbuse (4)
Võsiku (3)
Kamari (2)
Kumbusi (1)
Lebavere (1)
references naming only the commune
Lustivere v. (88)
Neanurme (7)
Tõrve (5)
references naming only the commune
Pajusi v. (81)
Lahavere (33)
Raasna (12)
Tapiku (10)
Pisisaare (1)
Sauka (1)
references naming only the commune
Võisiku v. (81)
Also recorded at Kolga-Jaani (640) and Pilistvere (57).
Kaavere (81)
Adavere v. (44)
Uue-Põltsamaa v. (30)
Allastvere (14)
Võhma-Nõmme (5)
Umbusi (4)
Võhma (4)
references naming only the commune
Nõmavere v. (23)
Sulustvere v. (13)
Sürgavere v. (11)
Rutikvere v. (9)
Rutikvere (2)
references naming only the commune
Põltsamaa v. (7)
Kursi v. (5)
Tapiku v. (1)
Tamsi (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 11 records)
Tõrenurme (8)
Räsna (2)
Also recorded at Pilistvere (7).
Lustivere (1)
Painküla (1)
Rutikvere as. (5)
Tapiku as. (1)
Kaava m. (1)
Kava m. (1)
Rutikvere m. (1)
Pärnu l. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (503)

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.