Tarvastu

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	2,390
Verses	45,744
Distinct words	31,994
Collection years	1867–1940
Collectors	Kala, Johan (Juhan), Jaan
Coordinates	58.2072, 25.9415

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
sõs	147
näiu	165
sõtsi	114
läits	118
üits	98
esä	113
sõtsikene	83
lätsi	114
mõtsa	108
esa	99
sissi	56
usse	84
kaala	98
ennekene	92
kun	67
emä	94
kodun	60
latse	69
ehen	36
näiukene	39

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,390 poems collected in this place, 1,074 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,316 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.

Vooru v. (392)

Tarvastu v. (157)

Ämmuste (26)

Riuma (11)

ERA II 123, 67/8 (54) — Leiaru t.
ERA II 123, 68/9 (55) — Leiaru t.
ERA II 123, 69/71 (56) — Leiaru t.
ERA II 123, 71 (57) — Leiaru t.
ERA II 123, 71 (58) — Vahemetsa t.
ERA II 123, 72 (59) — Vahemetsa t.
ERA II 123, 72 (60) — Vahemetsa t.
ERA II 123, 72 (61) — Vahemetsa t.
ERA II 123, 72 (62) — Vahemetsa t.
ERM 2, 1758/9
EÜS IX 344/6 (112)

Välluste (11)

Kuresaare (9)

Ülense (8)

H IV 8, 100 (4) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 101/3 (5) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 103 (6) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 103/4 (7) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 104 (8) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 97/8 (1) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 98/9 (2) — Tossu t.
H IV 8, 99/100 (3) — Tossu t.

Pikru (3)

Ülensi (3)

Laane (1)

ERA II 282, 433 (10)

Tüma (1)

H III 14, 117/8 (6)

Väluste (1)

E 77303/4 (3)

references naming only the commune

Vana-Suislepa v. (136)

Veneküla (106)

references naming only the commune

Kuressaare v. (108)

Suislepa v. (108)

Vene (8)

references naming only the commune

Kärstna v. (62)

Vana-Suislepi v. (43)

Vooru (25)

references naming only the commune

Uue-Suislepi v. (21)

Uue-Suislepa v. (8)

Uusna v. (2)

Valma (2)

Kärstna kõrtsi ligidal (33)

Riidaja (13)

Ukulinna (7)

Tüma talu (1)

H III 6, 325/7 (1)

Ulbi t (?) (1)

ERM 2, 1758/9

Jakobi as. (3)

ERA II 123, 54 (48) — Piirimetsa t.
ERA II 123, 54 (49) — Piirimetsa t.
ERA II 123, 55 (50) — Piirimetsa t.

Tarvastu m. (1)

EÜS IX 82/3 (75)

Mustla al. (3)

Kuressaare l. (1)

E 80880/1 (7)

Sääsle t. (20)

Tossu t. (14)

Nuudi t. (1)

E 19133

Pillikse t. (1)

E 58797

Ulbi t. (1)

E 58790

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.

talutütar taimekene (E 80374/6 (4)) — parallel in Paistu
mul on sõnu sõglatäisa (EKmS 4° 3, 403/4 (2)) — parallel in Paistu
äiu äiu kussu kussu (H II 25, 332 (7)) — parallel in Karksi
mis sul viga mis sul viga mulle tulla (H III 6, 591/3 (2)) — parallel in Karksi
mesitse minija tooli (H IV 3, 250/1 (4)) — parallel in Halliste
siia suurele talule (H IV 4, 289/90 (15)) — parallel in Halliste
oma maja oma marja (E 17174 (13)) — parallel in Helme
oma kodu oma kulla (H II 55, 302 (31)) — parallel in Helme
mis teil viga veksi olla (H II 55, 419/21 (7)) — parallel in Setumaa
kudas kangasta kudasi (E 16370/1 (3)) — parallel in Setumaa