Läänemaa

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Parishes and places filed under Läänemaa

Of the 333 poems collected under this name, 146 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 187 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); khk. = kihelkond (parish). 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.

• oh seda ullu mis oli mullu (H II 6, 259/60 (28)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• eit läks taadiga magama (H I 9, 78 (58)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• minu hall on teeda käinud (H I 4, 196 (52)) — parallel in Risti
• tõbi tulgu teine mingu (H II 54, 567 (77)) — parallel in Risti
• sõrmeotsad sõidelevad (H I 9, 132 (74)) — parallel in Haljala
• ühed mingu teised tulgu (H I 9, 44 (15)) — parallel in Haljala
• teiseks minu tegemine (H I 4, 199 (65)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• ema tuli välja vaatama (H I 4, 210 (92)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• ühte sööme ühte joome (H I 9, 96 (66)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• valge särgi vaalijad (H I 4, 199 (62)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani