RunoVerse

Rakvere

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems463
Verses6,717
Distinct words8,147
Collection years1875–1938
CollectorsElken, Juhan (Johan), Rosenstrauch
Coordinates59.3524, 26.3514

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kiuksusid4
väila8
jumpsiti3
uidutuidu5
tropil2
kelmim2
törgeldes2
listis2
piavanemb2
kendaaie2
päävatõusula2
luokesta2
luokesi2
suhkruviinaklaas2
ohvitseriga2
nääripääval2
abikaasaksa2
vareksele4
vihistab3
joodin4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 463 poems collected in this place, 188 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 275 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Sõmeru v. (113)
Aluvere (35)
Näpi (32)
Arkna (20)
Kohala (12)
Lõuta (10)
Raudvere (5)
Nurme (3)
references naming only the commune
Rakvere v. (35)
Järni (5)
Karitsa (5)
Tõrma (2)
Karivärava (1)
Tamna (1)
references naming only the commune
Kohala v. (19)
Kloodi v. (12)
Paatna (6)
references naming only the commune
Karitsa v. (5)
Assamalla v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 3 records)
Raudna (3)
Laanemõisa (15)
Tõrma-Metsküla (6)
Rägavere Aru (2)

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.