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Lääne-Nigula

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems382
Verses4,229
Distinct words5,860
Collection years1891–1957
CollectorsEnda Ennist · Ivan (Joann) Prooses · Cyrillus Kreek
Coordinates58.9729, 23.7600

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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
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. 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.

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)
Auaste as. (5)
Oru as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Palivere v. (91)
Allikmaa (43)
Vidruka (14)
Selja (9)
Kõnnu (7)
Jaakna (1)
Seljaküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Taebla v. (70)
Kirima (11)
Kedre (9)
Leediküla (9)
Võntküla (9)
Maaltse (5)
Nihka (5)
Also recorded at Ridala (8).
Maalse (2)
Liidi (1)
Turvalepa (1)
Soone (11)
Madise (9)
Võndküla (7)
references naming only the commune
Vedruki v. (11)
Orro v. (7)
Piirsalu v. (2)
Võnnu v. (1)
Also recorded at Ridala (100).
Võnnu (1)
Also recorded at Ridala (14).
Koela (2)
Uugla (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (43)

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.