Jaani

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 182 poems collected in this place, 150 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.

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.

• laia latsi laskema (H II 35, 121/3 (77)) — parallel in Pöide
• akkasid siis mehed minema (H II 35, 121/3 (77)) — parallel in Pöide
• mida karva ätse kasvab (ERA II 298, 500/2 (6)) — parallel in Muhu
• ilus ätse ja kena ätse (ERA II 298, 500/2 (6)) — parallel in Muhu
• isa läks õue vaatemaie (H II 35, 65/8 (32)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• venna ostetud hobused (H II 66, 8/9 (4)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• vaeselapse vaevapalka (H II 35, 99/100 (61)) — parallel in Haljala
• sadulale saksa poisi (H II 35, 36/7 (10)) — parallel in Haljala
• veeretas kera merese (H II 35, 136/7 (85)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• laterisse lauki täkku (ERA II 10, 327 (13)) — parallel in Tõstamaa