RunoVerse

Võrumaa

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems406
Verses5,540
Distinct words6,275
Collection years1644–1940
CollectorsStein, Victor, koguja teadmata
Coordinates57.8262, 26.9432

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
sop18
iks59
kuioma18
jummal31
puhmo12
pühä33
oll36
kaoma13
halu22
mõtsa35
tima10
uma23
minnu21
haljale10
hainale9
arota9
minno18
niseldunu7
vello11
nõglaga8

Parishes and places filed under Võrumaa

Of the 406 poems collected under this name, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 397 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); khk. = kihelkond (parish). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Sooru v. (5)
Lasva v. (1)
Võru khk. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (397)

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.