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Põltsamaa

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,459
Verses26,991
Distinct words20,394
Collection years1869–1943
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 poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
noorekesed37
neitsikesed56
laalemaie23
piale34
luugiuksed7
osanud24
koob19
tuassa26
õpimassa8
hoielda11
kuasa12
tallerpuida9
neidised14
pööraje5
laalan18
meste12
tõstsid20
kasse12
niidivööda8
marjavars8

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,459 poems collected in this place, 946 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 513 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)
Painküla (1)
Kaava m. (1)
Kava m. (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)
Tapiku as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Võisiku v. (81)
Also recorded at Kolga-Jaani (641) 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)
Rutikvere as. (5)
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, 13 records)
Tõrenurme (8)
Lustivere (3)
Räsna (2)
Also recorded at Pilistvere (7).
Rutikvere m. (1)
Pärnu l. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (513)

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.