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Harju-Jaani

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,513
Verses24,116
Distinct words17,143
Collection years1888–1942
CollectorsGustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) · Mihkel Neumann · Karl Viljak
Coordinates59.3102, 25.2444

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
kehra12
kaendelassa26
õetsutajad15
kambi11
vihaleht14
õetsus7
mõisinu7
kiigutajad21
kiigutage22
toadi13
koasa13
poari10
mõisinusse7
palveeida17
vihastan11
tehtaneksi14
võresta10
toadikene12
tuassa24
vihaseste9

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,513 poems collected in this place, 1,407 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 106 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. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Peningi v. (508)
Perila (131)
Also recorded at Kose (1).
Kalesi (85)
Igavere (21)
Pikavere (19)
Kurgla (15)
Kiviloo (11)
Pikavere-Urvaste (10)
Kadakaotsa (7)
Liivaaugu (1)
Haavamäe (21)
references naming only the commune
Anija v. (427)
Also recorded at Kuusalu (46).
Kehra (62)
Veski (18)
Pirga (5)
Aavere (3)
Vikipalu (2)
Looküla (24)
Sarapiku (5)
references naming only the commune
Raasiku v. (250)
Vaasu (28)
Parila (23)
Allika (3)
Haljava (2)
Sambu (2)
Paasiku (1)
Uueküla (3)
Raasiku m. (5)
references naming only the commune
Kambi v. (136)
Paasiku v. (44)
Kaersu (32)
references naming only the commune
Pikavere v. (17)
Kehra v. (14)
Alavere v. (8)
Also recorded at Kose (61).
Perila v. (5)
Annia v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 1 record)
Anija (1)
Kivila (15)
Jõelähtme (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (106)

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.