Läänemaa

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.

Parishes and places filed under Läänemaa

Of the 334 poems collected under this name, 147 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.

• magasi mari mäela (TEM 4, 46 (9)) — parallel in Karksi
• panem parti me mineme (TEM 4, 44/5 (8)) — parallel in Karksi
• alta aia päälta mulgu (TEM 4, 42/3 (3)) — parallel in Halliste
• vällä lää rada rahane (TEM 4, 72 (30)) — parallel in Halliste
• kitsumaie kakkumaie (TEM 4, 39/40 (7)) — parallel in Paistu
• kus see kana jälle jäi (H II 6, 196/7 (257)) — parallel in Paistu
• las meid kaia la valate (TEM 4, 81/2 (38)) — parallel in Helme
• oma maja oma marja (TEM 4, 56 (18)) — parallel in Helme
• küünarpuu pikka peona (TEM 4, 32/4 (2)) — parallel in Tarvastu
• emakese ennekene (TEM 4, 59 (22)) — parallel in Tarvastu