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Urvaste

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,729
Verses24,024
Distinct words20,501
Collection years1826–1943
CollectorsGustav Seen · Rudolf Tamm · Mihkel Pehka
Coordinates57.8470, 26.6421

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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
olõ148
tulõ157
iks215
sõs114
mii100
suurõ80
kon107
mullõ99
oll133
imä92
latsõ64
poolõ74
kotun81
tõnõ56
lätsi134
omma108
esä99
imi44
panõ54
vällä112

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,729 poems collected in this place, 1,431 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 298 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). 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.

Vana-Antsla v. (329)
Also recorded at Sangaste (15).
Jõepera (15)
Also recorded at Karula (8).
Mõisamäe (8)
Kobela (1)
references naming only the commune
Urvaste v. (320)
Verioja (2)
Tuti liin (12)
Koigu as. (1)
Verioja t. (78)
references naming only the commune
Vastse-Antsla v. (267)
Koigu v. (138)
Restu v. (135)
Visela (13)
Visele (1)
references naming only the commune
Vaabina v. (121)
Keema talu (1)
Antsla al. (8)
references naming only the commune
Antsla v. (36)
Kärgula v. (26)
Also recorded at Kanepi (1).
Puna (3)
Leiso (1)
Kärgula as. (2)
Sulbi al. (9)
references naming only the commune
Linnamäe v. (20)
Voonamäe (5)
Linnamäe as. (?) (1)
references naming only the commune
Uue-Antsla v. (19)
Vana-Antsmõisa v. (9)
Karula (6)
Otepää (1)
Vana-Antsla m. (23)
Tamme m. (10)
Koigu m. (5)
Loku t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (298)

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.