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Rõngu

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems768
Verses10,858
Distinct words11,359
Collection years1860–1941
CollectorsEduard Ahas · Peeter Grünfeldt · Andres Käärik
Coordinates58.1045, 26.2895

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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
kon32
mõtsa50
minnu35
lätsi46
valuvõtja9
esä35
läits27
loperdagu10
näiu28
nisake9
sosigu7
sobigu14
likes17
toes14
saie27
üits19
tennu22
sõitse13
otsan24
kost25

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 768 poems collected in this place, 454 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 314 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); 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.

Aakre v. (237)
Pühaste (94)
Pikasilla (18)
Põhu (7)
references naming only the commune
Väike-Rõngu v. (57)
Rõngu v. (38)
Raigaste (6)
Koruste (3)
references naming only the commune
Palupera v. (30)
Also recorded at Otepää (128).
Atramõisa (29)
references naming only the commune
Uderna v. (29)
Pastaku (1)
references naming only the commune
Suure-Rõngu v. (16)
Hellenurme v. (9)
Kirepi v. (9)
Uderna (1)
references naming only the commune
Palupere v. (2)
Valguta v. (2)
Also recorded at Rannu (89).
Lapetukme (2)
Vaike-Rõngu v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 6 records)
Tilga (3)
Kaarna (1)
Vitsjärve (1)
Väikse-Tilga (1)
Pukutare (1)
Schloss-Ringen m. (3)
Elva al. (8)
Savi t. (8)
Piiri t. (3)
Tilga t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (314)

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.