RunoVerse

Võnnu

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems601
Verses11,242
Distinct words13,019
Collection years1874–1939
CollectorsJaan, Viidalepp (Viidebaum), Richard
Coordinates58.2456, 27.1113

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
oll44
lätsi40
omma35
takan19
läts27
iks27
imä17
poig21
üts21
latse20
vaiva16
peiele5
pande8
esa20
usse18
näiu18
pallo10
esä17
kats14
mõtsa19

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 601 poems collected in this place, 383 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 218 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.

Rasina v. (92)
Kastmekoa (1)
Laane (1)
references naming only the commune
Kastre-Võnnu v. (85)
Hammaste (9)
Võnnu (7)
Ahunapalu (6)
Korista (6)
Ammaste (4)
Terikesti (4)
Piirisaare (2)
Kastre (1)
references naming only the commune
Ahja v. (59)
Agali (3)
Impste (3)
Kärsa (1)
Lääniste (1)
Valgesoo (1)
references naming only the commune
Kastre v. (53)
Võnnu v. (20)
Järve (16)
Kurista (2)
references naming only the commune
Kiidjärve v. (16)
Kurista v. (16)
Mäksa v. (7)
Sarakuste (3)
references naming only the commune
Haaslava v. (3)
Uniküla (3)
Luunja v. (2)
Alevi (2)
Meeksi v. (2)
Sikakurmu (2)
Abja v. (1)
Vastse-Kuuste v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (5 villages, 9 records)
Savimäe (3)
Padari (2)
Pedäspää (2)
Koritsa (1)
Vastse-Kuuste (1)
Üleküla (32)
Meerapalu (7)
Ahja-Mõtsk (3)
Kastre-Peravald (3)
Peravald (2)
Mehikoorma (1)
Parapalu (1)
Köstre as. (1)
Vastse-Kuuste as. (1)
Kurista m. (8)
Ahja m. (6)
Tueba t. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (218)

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.