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Kitse krapp

Runosong type in the classification of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database

In English: Goat's rattle (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLaulud meelelahutamiseks (songs for entertainment) › Naljalaulud
Poems135
Verses1,906
Collection places56
Collected1820s to 1940s
CollectorsKarl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Karl Viljak · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Peeter Penna · Tamberg, H. · Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) · Jakob Martin Sommer · Oskar Philipp Kallas · Jaan Rootslane · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the ERAB type index and quoted as it stands, in Estonian.

ERlA 325. Kitse krapp. Ikka huumor, mitte loodus?

Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1820s1
1870s12
1880s29
1890s29
1900s2
1910s17
1920s12
1930s24
1940s1
year not recorded8

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Kits (krapp)77
Kits26
Krapp16
Kass kaevus4
Karjasepõli2

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Kits ja krapp (Goat and the rattle)
  2. Elts
  3. Riias ristitud (Baptized in Riga)
  4. Kuldne kurk (Golden throat)
  5. Kits ähvardab (The threatening goat)
  6. Hää hääl (Good voice)
  7. Kits tahab heinu (Goat wants hay)
  8. Karjase pühapäev (Shepherd's Sunday)
  9. Õnnetused (Misfortunes)
  10. Hea hääl (Good voice)
  11. Ma laulan mere maaks (I'll Sing the Sea into Land)
  12. Poiss nutab, karjamuri üles poodud (Boy weeps, the herd-dog hanged)
  13. Koer ja ori (Dog and Slave)
  14. Karja Tõnu (Tõnu the herdsman)
  15. Hiir kassile (Mouse and Cat)
  16. Orjal koerapõli (A Slave's Dog's Life)
  17. Palju (Much)
  18. Hunte palju (Many wolves)
  19. Apirahan pyyntö (Request for alms)SKVR type
  20. Hunt ja kits (The Wolf and the Goat)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the type index of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database; the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.