Jämaja

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 137 poems collected in this place, 41 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 96 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). 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.

• tõuse üles mu minia (E 25250 (10)) — parallel in Pöide
• sisaliku seljasooned (E 25246/7 (6)) — parallel in Pöide
• neljas neiu kirjutaja (E 25245/6 (5)) — parallel in Muhu
• mis sa tühja kiiteled (E 25247/9 (7)) — parallel in Muhu
• kiskus lõukese lõuad lõhki (E 28097/8 (17)) — parallel in Haljala
• mehed aga mürasid mütsata (E 30141/2) — parallel in Haljala
• anna piima angusarve (AES, MT 204, 60) — parallel in Setumaa
• kallist kasteheinakest (E 30134/6 (3)) — parallel in Setumaa
• reu mulle kulda (H I 4, 282 (26)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• tudrad toas istujale (E 63415 (5)) — parallel in Kuusalu