RunoVerse

Lihula

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems267
Verses4,879
Distinct words5,950
Collection years1872–1939
CollectorsKallas, Oskar Philipp, Ostrov
Coordinates58.6475, 23.8210

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
tarviduses4
nied18
sukeb4
aomies4
kostsi8
mõistsi7
tieda10
õesed8
einudesse3
urtadesse3
omigul3
jänussa3
saeavanem4
nadusid3
äigamaie7
kojugi4
tõusenesse4
kirta3
siblinsablin2
ninnekirja2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 267 poems collected in this place, 215 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.

Lihula v. (209)
Alaküla (117)
Äärenurga (4)
Parivere (2)
Valluste (2)
Älvatu (2)
Ala (1)
references naming only the commune
Matsalu v. (3)
Saare kõrtsi (39)
Saare kõrtsi saunas (1)
Tuudi as. (6)
Lihula m. (3)
Lihula al. (1)
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.