Emmaste

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

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.

• oh minu hellad eide vennad (H II 41, 41/3 (5)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• ligi lipukandijad (ERA II 254, 257/8 (5)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• kulla mees pai mees (E 48566/7 (5)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kõrtsi naise kõht oli viltu (E, StK 30, 8 (6)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kaks silma kassi peas (ERA II 189, 104 (161)) — parallel in Haljala
• paremat kätt nurga sees (E, StK 30, 28 (16)) — parallel in Haljala
• käsivarred kõikuma (H II 6, 82/3 (107)) — parallel in Käina
• kakk oli väga pisuke (H II 6, 82/3 (107)) — parallel in Käina
• mina läksin mikult tulda tooma (E, StK 30, 23/4 (12)) — parallel in Muhu
• vanamees suri ise ära (E, StK 30, 10/4 (8)) — parallel in Muhu