RunoVerse

Iisaku

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems364
Verses4,857
Distinct words6,715
Collection years1888–1939
CollectorsKallas, Oskar Philipp, Ostrov
Coordinates59.1027, 27.3132

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

WordOccurrences
õli16
maasiksuppi4
õleks6
õtsa6
menema7
kõhe5
venetäie3
muistas3
veljekesta4
keksi3
nägima3
veljekene5
õle14
mengu4
õlin4
nied10
vastaeli3
tullessanna3
possale2
possa2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 364 poems collected in this place, 291 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 73 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); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Tudulinna v. (90)
Pärniku (7)
Pärniku II (6)
Tudulinna (5)
references naming only the commune
Kurtna v. (75)
Sootaga (46)
Kaidma (20)
Kivinõmme (9)
Illuka v. (47)
Nõmme (8)
Lähtepää (4)
Ohakvere (3)
references naming only the commune
Iisaku v. (39)
Tärivere (3)
Jõuga (1)
Varesmetsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Mäetaguse v. (4)
Uhe (2)
Metsküla (1)
Vaabu (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 54 records)
Oonurme (52)
Tammispää (1)
Tudulinna-Kesavälja (1)
Imatu metsavahi maja (1)
Tudulinna as. (1)

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.