RunoVerse

Jaani

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems171
Verses3,433
Distinct words4,759
Collection years1838–1940
CollectorsIlves, Jakob, Keerig
Coordinates58.4998, 22.8396

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
moole15
emm8
lepu6
tumala5
noorukeised3
toane4
emme6
kerguteeda3
vennukeine3
kut7
mustista3
kõngevad3
sõsseke3
kipul2
rauakirja2
puuagapinu2
kerguga2
peeleke2
pühiksime2
poistesta2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 171 poems collected in this place, 139 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 32 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.

Maasi v. (117)
Pahila (60)
Kavandi (16)
Indu (11)
Tagavere (8)
Kõinastu (6)
Järve (2)
Väike-Pahila (1)
Võhma (1)
references naming only the commune
Kareda v. (15)
Taaliku v. (6)
Pöide v. (1)
Haapsu (1)
Kareda m. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (32)

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.