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Saarde

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,094
Verses20,715
Distinct words17,871
Collection years1859–1939
CollectorsJ. Sitska · J. Aru · Eduard Kase
Coordinates58.1017, 24.8687

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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
aamen47
mede46
paugati15
tennu22
maaniga14
korviga11
virati7
piitsavars12
sõnadega13
lõmmale7
kirvel11
roosavars10
rohke16
pühä15
pinnale8
mürati8
laina13
raita6
veidukene6
vaim21

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,094 poems collected in this place, 732 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 362 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. 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.

Voltveti v. (144)
Allikukivi (4)
Talsi (4)
Kanaküla (3)
Kärsu jaam (4)
Räägu as. (1)
Also recorded at Halliste (1).
Voltveti m. (1)
references naming only the commune
Kilingi v. (140)
Kilerpära (1)
Veski (1)
references naming only the commune
Jäärja v. (110)
Käremetsa (4)
Keremetsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Pati v. (59)
Kalita (3)
Risti (3)
Ristiküla (32)
references naming only the commune
Surju v. (49)
Also recorded at Pärnu (62) and Pärnu l. (3).
Pati-Ristiküla (32)
Kikepera (12)
references naming only the commune
Tali v. (45)
Talli v. (38)
Tuuliku (1)
references naming only the commune
Laiksaare v. (35)
Urissaare (2)
references naming only the commune
Kariste v. (13)
Saarde v. (11)
Tihemetsa v. (11)
Orajõe v. (10)
Päti v. (3)
Karuküla (3)
Volveti v. (3)
Vana-Kariste v. (2)
Reiuse (2)
Häädemeeste v. (1)
Also recorded at Häädemeeste (105).
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)
Pootsi (16)
Tominga (16)
Kilingi-Kikepera (8)
Kilingi-Nõmme al. (1)
Kilingi-Nõmme l. (34)
Poems with no finer place recorded (362)

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.