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Iisaku

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems370
Verses4,958
Distinct words6,822
Collection years1888–1939
CollectorsOskar Philipp Kallas · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Marta Koppel (snd. Blum)
Coordinates59.1027, 27.3132

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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
õli16
maasiksuppi4
õleks6
õtsa6
menema7
õle14
kõhe5
venetäie3
muistas3
nied10
veljekesta4
pilliroogudesta4
keksi3
nägima3
veljekene5
vastaeli3
õlin4
siessa5
mengu4
tullessanna3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 370 poems collected in this place, 297 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. 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.

Tudulinna v. (141)
Oonurme (52)
Pärniku (7)
Pärniku II (6)
Tudulinna (5)
references naming only the commune
Kurtna v. (75)
Sootaga (46)
Kaidma (20)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (14).
Kivinõmme (9)
Illuka v. (47)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (256).
Nõmme (8)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (22).
Lähtepää (4)
Ohakvere (3)
Imatu metsavahi maja (1)
references naming only the commune
Iisaku v. (39)
Tärivere (3)
Jõuga (1)
Varesmetsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Tärivere v. (6)
Lõpe (6)
Mäetaguse v. (4)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (111).
Uhe (2)
Metsküla (1)
Vaabu (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 2 records)
Tammispää (1)
Tudulinna-Kesavälja (1)
Tudulinna as. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (73)

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.