RunoVerse

Rannu

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems464
Verses7,579
Distinct words9,887
Collection years1854–1938
CollectorsTampere, Herbert, Raag
Coordinates58.2384, 26.1614

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
läits19
mõtsa20
liina17
üits13
latse15
kosten4
tännässilmä4
vitsadel3
makale3
lätsi12
kaits8
lätsin8
kõpitseva3
neidsikene3
seenip3
murtu4
tulõb4
tigane7
üts9
nikerdus3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 464 poems collected in this place, 266 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 198 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.

Rannu v. (165)
Verevi (43)
Sangla (36)
Rake (3)
references naming only the commune
Valguta v. (86)
Ranna (11)
references naming only the commune
Tamme v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 1 record)
Valguta (1)
Uniküla (71)
Palupäälne popsiasula (2)
Vehendi (2)
Väike-Konguta (2)
Rakeküla (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (198)

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.