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Lihula

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems269
Verses4,902
Distinct words5,983
Collection years1872–1939
CollectorsOskar Philipp Kallas · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Tamberg, H.
Coordinates58.6475, 23.8210

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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
nied18
tarviduses4
kostsi8
sukeb4
tieda10
õesed8
mõistsi7
aomies4
läksi12
einudesse3
jänussa3
saeavanem4
äigamaie7
urtadesse3
omigul3
nellas8
kojugi4
tõusenesse4
ies7
nadusid3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 269 poems collected in this place, 217 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 52 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); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough). 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.

Lihula v. (211)
Alaküla (117)
Äärenurga (4)
Parivere (2)
Valluste (2)
Älvatu (2)
Ala (1)
Saare kõrtsi (39)
Saare kõrtsi saunas (1)
Tuudi as. (6)
Lihula al. (3)
references naming only the commune
Matsalu v. (3)
Also recorded at Karuse (19).
Lihula m. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (52)

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.