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Jõhvi

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,947
Verses34,426
Distinct words25,110
Collection years1885–1941
CollectorsOskar Philipp Kallas · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · August Sildnik
Coordinates59.3272, 27.4027

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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
õli88
õlin33
nied75
õlema26
müeda25
linapihta19
õle84
menna37
õlid29
jua29
tõissa17
en31
mereje32
piale65
vein27
laake15
mieste31
kaula25
kõhe18
õtsa20

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,947 poems collected in this place, 1,700 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 247 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); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough); l. = linn (town). 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.

Voka v. (503)
Toila (281)
Pühajõe (37)
Konju (21)
Vaivina (17)
Päite (10)
Voka (7)
Toila-Männiku (2)
Voka as. (4)
Mäetaguse m. (1)
references naming only the commune
Illuka v. (260)
Also recorded at Iisaku (47).
Raudi (27)
Nõmme (22)
Also recorded at Iisaku (8).
Lähtepea (19)
Kaidma (14)
Also recorded at Iisaku (20).
Lehtepää (12)
Kurtna (11)
Oru-Võhma (5)
Imatu (1)
Kukemäe (3)
Kurtna as. (9)
Ohakvere as. (5)
Kurtna m. (9)
Jõhvi m. (5)
references naming only the commune
Kohtla v. (255)
Also recorded at Lüganuse (11).
Kohtla (121)
Käva (66)
Võrnu (59)
Edise (4)
Kohila (1)
references naming only the commune
Kurtna v. (254)
Puru (146)
Lehtepea (42)
Edivere (3)
Aidu talu (1)
references naming only the commune
Järve v. (155)
Järve (25)
Kukruse (21)
Saka (19)
Also recorded at Lüganuse (72).
Peeri (17)
Väike-Saka (15)
Valaste (14)
Ontika (2)
Kukruse kaevandus (1)
references naming only the commune
Mäetaguse v. (111)
Also recorded at Iisaku (4).
Atsalama (62)
Mäetaguse (9)
Liiva (8)
Aru (2)
Metsküla (1)
Ratva (1)
references naming only the commune
Jõhvi v. (73)
Tarakuse (26)
Rausvere (11)
Puru-Ridaküla (8)
Sompa (6)
Tammiku (2)
Jõhvi al. (6)
references naming only the commune
Päite v. (28)
Also recorded at Vaivara (1).
Kukruse v. (16)
Kiikla v. (11)
Kohtla-Järve v. (9)
Võrme (5)
references naming only the commune
Pagari v. (9)
Jõetaguse (9)
Ädise v. (7)
Vasavere (7)
Türsava v. (5)
Toila v. (4)
Ohakvere v. (3)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 3 records)
Kalina (3)
Kuremäe (5)
Kiikla m. (20)
Illuka m. (19)
Ädise m. (7)
Kohtla-Järve l. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (247)

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.