Harju-Jaani

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.

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,508 poems collected in this place, 1,403 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 105 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.

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.

• mis sina sinine laulad (EÜS IX 1108 (32)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• tallinna paras pasuna (H II 15, 462 (58)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• mis seal kerve silma pealla (EÜS X 1902/3 (81)) — parallel in Haljala
• mis mina kukun kurba lindu (H II 15, 726/7 (54)) — parallel in Haljala
• vihaleht olen veeremaie (EÜS IX 860/1 (29)) — parallel in Ambla
• sajarublase sadula (E 15675/6 (181)) — parallel in Ambla
• mõisamees madalukene (E 15552 (5)) — parallel in Kadrina
• vastas need vanad mõlemad (E 15551 (1)) — parallel in Kadrina
• lähme jaanipäe kirikusse (EÜS VIII 2284 (24)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• kärmas kangast kuduma (E 15724 (254)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani