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Rakvere

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems464
Verses6,722
Distinct words8,157
Collection years1875–1938
CollectorsJuhan (Johan) Elken · Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Kristjan Raud
Coordinates59.3524, 26.3514

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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
kiuksusid4
väila8
jumpsiti3
uidutuidu5
jalassa9
vareksele4
kelmim2
tropil2
törgeldes2
päävatõusula2
listis2
piavanemb2
kendaaie2
luokesi2
luokesta2
ohvitseriga2
suhkruviinaklaas2
nääripääval2
abikaasaksa2
joodin4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 464 poems collected in this place, 189 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. 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.

Sõmeru v. (114)
Also recorded at Viru-Nigula (7).
Aluvere (35)
Näpi (33)
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)
Laanemõisa (15)
Tõrma-Metsküla (6)
Kohala v. (19)
Also recorded at Viru-Nigula (2).
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)
Rägavere Aru (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (275)

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.