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Tartu-Maarja

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems447
Verses7,944
Distinct words9,719
Collection years1876–1941
CollectorsJohann Mägi · Arnold Mäetam · Karl Koplus
Coordinates58.3854, 26.8911

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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
ennekõine7
emäkõine5
isä13
ikuhääle3
lavas4
vellekõine4
kõnelsid4
ussed4
usse12
riivirauda3
sibulilla3
apostel3
sildade3
joomateeda3
nutumeele3
sõtsikene9
angervaksad8
latse11
pennar4
silijad3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 447 poems collected in this place, 356 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 91 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). 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.

Kavastu v. (81)
Kargaja (1)
references naming only the commune
Luunja v. (66)
Also recorded at Võnnu (2).
Raadi v. (39)
Vasula (17)
references naming only the commune
Maramaa v. (30)
Laisa (26)
Vasula kõrts (4)
Pilka v. (28)
Vesneri v. (26)
Also recorded at Äksi (16).
Vesneri as. (3)
references naming only the commune
Ropka v. (20)
Ropka m. (16)
references naming only the commune
Pilkuse v. (14)
Vorbuse v. (13)
Ilmatsalu v. (11)
Taabri v. (5)
Luua v. (4)
Tähtvere v. (3)
Also recorded at Nõo (4).
Ilmatsalu as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Puhja v. (2)
Haaslava v. (1)
Also recorded at Kambja (4) and Võnnu (3).
Ihaste (1)
Tammistu v. (1)
Tartu v. (1)
Haava (1)
Also recorded at Äksi (1).
Vasula v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 1 record)
Aravuste (1)
Sahkapuu (4)
Raadi m. (10)
Poems with no finer place recorded (91)

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.