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Emmaste

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems185
Verses1,948
Distinct words3,219
Collection years1890–1939
CollectorsEnda Ennist · Gustav Seen · Peeter (Peter) Saul
Coordinates58.7281, 22.5121

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
vigadi4
terasetükk2
prillapralla2
sukadkindad2
kolesti2
maopilli2
teovallast2
tegemeine2
olemeine2
peretaadil3
tohri2
sarilikud2
kaevumäeke2
mikult5
kiitsak2
algavad2
emmaste2
egamees2
reni2
ristarästa3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 185 poems collected in this place, 122 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 63 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); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Emmaste v. (84)
Muda (30)
Õngu (20)
Harju (15)
Viiri (6)
Tärkmaa (5)
Metsalõuka (3)
Valgu (2)
Lepiku (1)
Ärma (1)
references naming only the commune
Villages with no commune on the record (14 villages, 31 records)
Metsalauga (6)
Sõru (6)
Tilga (4)
Tohvri (3)
Kuusiku (2)
Õnniku (2)
Kuriste (1)
Külamaa (1)
Ole (1)
Prassi (1)
Prähnu (1)
Selja (1)
Tohri (1)
Õningu (1)
Aadma as. (4)
Emmaste m. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (63)

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.