Haapsalu

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.

Places the songs were collected in

Of the 86 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 85 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: as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

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.

• astu alla aitadesse (H III 4, 661/2 (2)) — parallel in Viljandi
• ära mine mehe riietega (H III 4, 661/2 (2)) — parallel in Viljandi
• küüdud härjad kündsid üles (E 53537 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• siis sai otsa ommetigi (EÜS IX 409/10 (9)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• noored mehed hellad vennad (E 53538 (2)) — parallel in Koeru
• teeksin häälta tedrekeeli (E 53538 (2)) — parallel in Koeru
• kesse peab sõtta minema (EÜS X 669/70 (122)) — parallel in Paistu
• siis sai naine kui muile (EÜS IX 410/1 (10)) — parallel in Paistu
• mul jäi koju suudesulge (E 53538 (2)) — parallel in Haljala
• mis mina kukun kurba lindu (E 53538 (2)) — parallel in Haljala