Helme

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

Distinctive vocabulary

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

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 2,068 poems collected in this place, 1,325 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 743 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); l. = linn (town). 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.

• tüdärlaits sa linnukene (AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2)) — parallel in Karksi
• tädipoja tävve mehe (AES, MT 137, 20 (1)) — parallel in Karksi
• valla viie vahelta (AES, MT 186, 108) — parallel in Paistu
• säält ma tunne oma kodu (AES, MT 186, 108) — parallel in Paistu
• maka maka naine noori (AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2)) — parallel in Halliste
• vaene johus joomapaika (AES, MT 137, 20/1 (2)) — parallel in Halliste
• oma maja oma marja (AES, MT 186, 108) — parallel in Tarvastu
• oma kodu oma kulla (AES, MT 186, 108) — parallel in Tarvastu
• maja täis marjapuida (AES, MT 137, 12/4) — parallel in Setumaa
• tule mulle näiu noori (H II 31, 862/3 (4)) — parallel in Sangaste