RunoVerse

Saarde

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,088
Verses20,682
Distinct words17,850
Collection years1859–1939
CollectorsJ., Sitska, Aru
Coordinates58.1017, 24.8687

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mede46
aamen46
korviga11
virati7
paugati15
lõmmale7
maaniga14
piitsavars12
tennu22
sõnadega13
roosavars10
kirvel11
mürati8
raita6
veidukene6
rohke16
pinnale8
pühä15
kaasalehma4
lõikeheinast4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,088 poems collected in this place, 727 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 361 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); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Voltveti v. (144)
Allikukivi (4)
Talsi (4)
Kanaküla (3)
references naming only the commune
Kilingi v. (140)
Kilerpära (1)
Veski (1)
references naming only the commune
Jäärja v. (110)
Pati v. (53)
Kalita (3)
Risti (3)
references naming only the commune
Surju v. (47)
Kikepera (11)
references naming only the commune
Tali v. (45)
Talli v. (37)
Tuuliku (1)
references naming only the commune
Laiksaare v. (34)
Urissaare (2)
references naming only the commune
Kariste v. (13)
Saarde v. (11)
Tihemetsa v. (11)
Orajõe v. (10)
Volveti v. (3)
Päti v. (2)
Vana-Kariste v. (2)
Reiuse (2)
Häädemeeste v. (1)
Kilingi-Nõmme v. (1)
Killingi v. (1)
Paikuse v. (1)
Kabli (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (5 villages, 16 records)
Kilingi (6)
Tõõtsi (4)
Uuemaa (3)
Voltveti (2)
Lindi (1)
Ristiküla (32)
Pati-Ristiküla (31)
Pootsi (16)
Tominga (16)
Kilingi-Kikepera (8)
Käremetsa (4)
Kärsu jaam (4)
Karuküla (3)
Keremetsa (1)
Räägu as. (1)
Voltveti m. (1)
Kilingi-Nõmme al. (1)
Kilingi-Nõmme l. (34)

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.