Järvamaa

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 and communes the songs were collected in

Of the 50 poems collected in this place, one names a smaller place on its archive record; the remaining 49 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). 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.

• neist ei pidanud ta lugu (E 39800/1 (1)) — parallel in Ambla
• laua pealta laululehte (EÜS X 2321 (151)) — parallel in Ambla
• seisa seinaksi eesa (H II 14, 624/5 (2)) — parallel in Haljala
• sõimati sõnade sõlmi (EÜS VI 1162/3 (61)) — parallel in Haljala
• seitsmekümned saiad söödi (E 39800/1 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• viiedkümned viinad joodi (E 39800/1 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• silmad taevatähtedesta (EÜS VI 1164 (63)) — parallel in Koeru
• kiigelauad lakkadesse (EÜS X 2326 (162)) — parallel in Koeru
• vagu aades vainiulle (EÜS VI 1161 (56)) — parallel in Peetri
• ärrad ette ärgadeksi (EÜS VI 1163 (62)) — parallel in Peetri