Äksi

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	716
Verses	12,255
Distinct words	12,337
Collection years	1887–1939
Collectors	Paul, Sepp, Jaan
Coordinates	58.4980, 26.5521

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
loogeleisi	8
kaanike	19
kaasike	22
viisusepad	4
lõpele	10
kelmikesed	4
tehnud	7
adrakiiludesta	4
mõelsin	4
nooremille	3
kahan	3
kuhan	3
kuhama	3
kahama	3
saviauk	5
kirjasepad	4
täiaga	5
väätidesta	5
vainijalle	5
kuhjakesta	4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 716 poems collected in this place, 590 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 126 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Elistvere v. (159)

Õvanurme (63)

Raigastvere (31)

Kärksi (7)

ERA II 106, 152 (1) — Lallu t.
ERA II 106, 159/61 (7) — Lallu t.
ERA II 106, 194 (1) — Pilli t.
ERA II 106, 194 (2) — Pilli t.
ERA II 106, 195 (3) — Pilli t.
ERA II 106, 196 (4) — Pilli t.
ERA II 106, 215 (17) — Pilli t.

Vedu (2)

Välgi (1)

ERA II 149, 522/5 (28)

references naming only the commune

Saadjärve v. (150)

Voldi (7)

Kõdu (1)

ERA II 29, 397/8 (10)

references naming only the commune

Kärkna v. (75)

Pupastvere (14)

ERA II 7, 561/2 (1) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 562 (2) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 562 (3) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 562 (4) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 562/3 (5) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 563 (6) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 563 (7) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 564 (8) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 564 (9) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 564/5 (10) — Piiri t.
ERA II 7, 565 (11) — Piiri t.
ERA II 98, 345 (3) — Assaku t.
ERA II 98, 361 (9) — Vildi t.
ERA II 98, 367 (13) — Vildi t.

Pupasvere (8)

E 51869/71 (1) — Kalli t.
E 51871/2 (2) — Kalli t.
E 51872/3 (3) — Kalli t.
E 51873/4 (4) — Kalli t.
E 51874/5 (5) — Kalli t.
E 51877 (7) — Kalli t.
E 51878 — Kalli t.
E 51884/5 — Kalli t.

Pupavere (1)

E 51875/7 (6) — Kalli t.

references naming only the commune

Sootaga v. (72)

Pugastvere (1)

ERA II 208, 417/8 (11)

references naming only the commune

Visusi v. (42)

Vedu v. (36)

Vesneri v. (16)

Kobratu (2)

references naming only the commune

ERA II 7, 567/8 (l) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 568 (2) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 569 (3) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 569/70 (1) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 570/1 (1) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 571 (1) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 572 (2) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 572 (3) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 572 (4) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 573 (1) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 574 (2) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 574 (3) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 574 (4) — Pohla t.
ERA II 7, 574 (5) — Pohla t.

Tabivere v. (11)

Pirusi (5)

Sepa (2)

references naming only the commune

Tartu v. (7)

Puhtaleiva (6)

ERA II 7, 503
ERA II 7, 503 (1)
ERA II 7, 556 (1) — Valgehansu t.
ERA II 7, 556 (2) — Valgehansu t.
ERA II 7, 557 (3) — Valgehansu t.
ERA II 7, 557 (5) — Valgehansu t.

Haava (1)

E 71267 (1)

Visusti v. (6)

Kaarepere v. (4)

Mullavere (4)

Äksi v. (3)

Kastli (2)

E 66110/1 (1)
ERA II 99, 498/500 (3) — Tamme t.

references naming only the commune

E 76668 (1)

Marama v. (2)

Raigastvere v. (1)

E 18320 (10)

Voldi v. (1)

H III 9, 417 (3)

Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 7 records)

Sootaga (4)

Laeva (3)

Sootaga vanadek (5)

Kõnnu (1)

E, StK 34, 23b (1)

Soontaga (1)

E 18821

Suursöödi (1)

E, StK 34, 23b (1)

Tabivere m. (1)

E 71241 (1)

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.

kus see vanameheke (ERA II 186, 49/51 (19)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
rikas rehe katusselle (H II 33, 537/8 (2)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
peretütar linnukene (E 66053/68 (1)) — parallel in Paistu
vaesed vennad vabisevad (E 66053/68 (1)) — parallel in Paistu
poole versta pohlamaada (H II 28, 270/2 (6)) — parallel in Haljala
mullu jõin murekariku (H II 50, 815/6 (95)) — parallel in Haljala
vald ei kiitnud valjaaida (H II 50, 750 (24)) — parallel in Kuusalu
ühe pani pardiksi pajusse (H II 28, 265/7 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
suvilise suvevaeva (H II 50, 735 (2)) — parallel in Halliste
sõrmed noored saarekesed (H II 50, 822 (102)) — parallel in Halliste