Juuru

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 280 poems collected in this place, 172 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 108 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.

• lase kiigu käia (EÜS XI 1244 (88)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• sarapuine suanikene (EÜS XI 698 (241)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• kadakas karvade vahele (AES, MT 93, 9/10) — parallel in Haljala
• kuusik silmakulmu peale (AES, MT 93, 9/10) — parallel in Haljala
• see oli noorte naiste järve (H III 3, 480/1 (15)) — parallel in Ambla
• se oli noorte meeste järve (H III 3, 480/1 (15)) — parallel in Ambla
• seegi ise ilma tarka (EÜS XI 720 (280)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• emakene memmekene (AES, MT 93, 9/10) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• lilla istus kamberis (EÜS XI 731/4 (297)) — parallel in Kose
• kus me endid kuivatama (EÜS XI 697/8 (240)) — parallel in Kose