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Rapla

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems988
Verses11,444
Distinct words11,056
Collection years1877–1942
CollectorsRichard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · J. Roots · Emilie Poom
Coordinates58.8987, 24.7335

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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
uilates15
möirates12
vardi6
tipin7
kõbas5
kõrvatagused4
vups4
keita6
tõrvalaka5
munapütid3
kimpakampa3
postilise3
maugutükki3
laastama3
pudrupajasse4
timpatampa5
mäge10
sussu4
oinaaksi4
muudku4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 988 poems collected in this place, 675 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 313 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); al. = alevik (small borough). 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.

Rapla v. (213)
Kodila (26)
Hagudi (18)
Nurme (10)
Jalase (1)
Kaarepere (1)
Kaerepere (1)
Kalmeti (1)
Uusküla (7)
Metsküla (5)
Kaldamäe (4)
Seli as. (26)
references naming only the commune
Kabala v. (128)
Pühatu (40)
Also recorded at Märjamaa (12).
Suurküla (11)
Lõpemetsa (5)
Kabala (2)
Puhatu (2)
Also recorded at Märjamaa (12).
Riidaku (1)
Uustalu t. (48)
references naming only the commune
Põlli v. (74)
Keava v. (58)
Raikküla v. (52)
Nõmmemetsa (38)
Lipametsa (7)
Raikküla as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Kehtna v. (44)
Ahekõnnu (14)
Rummu (11)
Nadalama (5)
Vaiste (4)
Ohekatku (3)
Kalbu (2)
Vastja (2)
Keava (1)
Tädiküla (11)
Kople-aru (3)
Habe (2)
references naming only the commune
Järvakandi v. (34)
Sooaluste (7)
Kokuta (1)
Kärpla (1)
Männiku (1)
Nõlva (9)
Lellapere as. (1)
Lellepere as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Alu v. (29)
Märjamaa v. (8)
Also recorded at Märjamaa (267).
Kõrvetaguse (8)
Also recorded at Märjamaa (119).
Valtu v. (2)
Saksa (2)
Lelle v. (1)
Also recorded at Vändra (188).
Varbola v. (1)
Also recorded at Nissi (41).
Ohukotsu (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 20 records)
Sootaguse (12)
Iira (7)
Luhari (1)
Kabala-Suurküla (46)
Aranküla (16)
Sillaotsa kõrts (7)
Kaasiku (4)
Rapla köstrimaja (3)
Uudeküla (3)
Raiküla (2)
Adila (1)
Koigi mõisa läh (1)
Kabala m. (5)
Kuusiku m. (2)
Rapla al. (3)
Sillaotsa t. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (313)

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.