RunoVerse

Lääne-Nigula

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems382
Verses4,229
Distinct words5,860
Collection years1891–1957
CollectorsEnnist, Enda, Prooses
Coordinates58.9729, 23.7600

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
piilapaala4
katkise8
sesse7
mank4
aevastes3
põllupeenruid3
poose4
auto4
juula10
viisteist5
nahkaessa3
pirina3
akkamest3
impel3
pimpel3
praks3
vekk3
teedi3
padula3
põllukündijaks4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 382 poems collected in this place, 339 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 43 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); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Oru v. (157)
Jalukse (32)
Saunja (16)
Soolu (13)
Piilama (9)
Vedra (9)
Kapra (5)
Rannaküla (5)
Rootsi (3)
Soolo (3)
Veski (3)
Keedika (2)
references naming only the commune
Palivere v. (91)
Allikmaa (43)
Vidruka (14)
Selja (9)
Kõnnu (7)
Jaakna (1)
references naming only the commune
Taebla v. (70)
Kirima (11)
Kedre (9)
Leediküla (9)
Võntküla (9)
Maaltse (5)
Nihka (5)
Maalse (2)
Liidi (1)
Turvalepa (1)
references naming only the commune
Vedruki v. (11)
Orro v. (7)
Piirsalu v. (2)
Võnnu v. (1)
Võnnu (1)
Soone (11)
Madise (9)
Võndküla (7)
Koela (2)
Seljaküla (1)
Uugla (1)
Auaste as. (5)
Oru as. (1)

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.