Halliste

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	2,269
Verses	51,099
Distinct words	31,517
Collection years	1868–1939
Collectors	Kase (Kaur), Leena, Joosep
Coordinates	58.1108, 25.3329

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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
läits	141
näiu	139
lätsi	152
üits	105
ek	51
mi	141
latse	107
ken	62
ennekene	124
ehen	58
mõtsa	111
usse	98
mede	120
esa	108
kaits	73
koe	69
olei	44
katsi	89
ketsi	31
tennu	84

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,269 poems collected in this place, 1,094 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 1,175 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); al. = alevik (small borough); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Kaarli v. (423)

Sammaste (7)

E 54461/61b — Vilbarti t.
ERA II 96, 13/6 (1) — Okkaru t.
ERA II 96, 16/8 (2) — Okkaru t.
ERA II 96, 18/20 (3) — Okkaru t.
ERA II 96, 21/3 (4) — Okkaru t.
ERA II 96, 23/4 (5) — Okkaru t.
ERA II 96, 25/6 (6) — Okkaru t.

references naming only the commune

Abja v. (211)

Abja-Vanamõisa (1)

ERA I 3, 78 (3)

Pässaste (1)

E 69875/7 — Lämba t.

references naming only the commune

Vana-Kariste v. (144)

Pornuse v. (75)

Kulla (4)

Kamara (2)

references naming only the commune

Uue-Kariste v. (69)

Vana-Pornuse v. (33)

Penuja v. (22)

Vanamõisa v. (15)

Halliste v. (7)

Laatre v. (7)

Kaubi v. (6)

Loodi v. (6)

Naistevalla (6)

Veelikse v. (4)

Kariste v. (2)

Rajangu v. (2)

Alja v. (1)

ERA II 214, 577 (5)

Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 5 records)

Kõrgemäe (2)

Veelikse (2)

Pornuse (1)

E 53402 (2)

Abja-Paluoja (8)

Peraküla (7)

Uue-Pornuse (3)

Abja Ruukli (1)

E, StK 18, 11/2 (3)

Raadi jaam (1)

E A 532/4

Räägu as. (1)

ERA II 15, 430 (10)

Kaarli m. (25)

Kulla al. (11)

Risti al. (6)

Abja al. (2)

Mõisaküla l. (14)

Kõrnitse t. (43)

Poems with no finer place recorded (1,175)

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.

suvilinnul suure laulu (E 19917 (1)) — parallel in Karksi
velle niidu veere pääl (H II 5, 8/13 (7)) — parallel in Karksi
meil om kulda ämmä tooli (AES, MT 45, 5/8) — parallel in Paistu
meil om kulda äiä tooli (AES, MT 45, 5/8) — parallel in Paistu
maka maka naine noori (ERA II 83, 352/4 (8)) — parallel in Helme
vaene johus joomapaika (ERA II 83, 352/4 (8)) — parallel in Helme
mesitse minija tooli (AES, MT 45, 5/8) — parallel in Tarvastu
siia suurele talule (AES, MT 45, 5/8) — parallel in Tarvastu
ei või laske (ERA II 96, 16/8 (2)) — parallel in Setumaa
suve ma anna suure villa (H III 6, 145/7 (5)) — parallel in Setumaa