Kaali (Kaal[ikas])
Name of a field of ten craters on Saaremaa caused by a meteorite landing variously around 1690-1510 BCE (as dated by accelerator mass spectrometry) or, less probably, 7500 BCE (radiocarbon and palynological analyses). As it slowed down in the atmosphere to an impact speed of some 10-20 km/s, it broke into pieces and the largest, comparable to a small atomic bomb, left a hole 110 m in diameter and 22 m deep. Go to ///flunking.refuse.supermarket. Understandably, even its mythology has its own mythology. In fact, the street is named after the swede, turnip, rape or rutabaga, and shouldn’t be here anyway, belonging to the Laagri township (outside Tallinn) fruit an’ veg section along with Tomati, Selleri, et al. Also of interest is that the Saaremaa name of Kaali has nothing to do with root vegetables but comes from the von Gahlen family who owned an estate there from 16th C to 1729. In southern Estonia, Setumaa in particular, kaal:kaali is a headscarf.
