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Lüganuse

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems796
Verses14,753
Distinct words15,159
Collection years1875–1940
CollectorsHindrik (Heinrich) Prants · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Oskar Philipp Kallas
Coordinates59.3013, 26.9863

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
en37
õli53
tuise11
õlid21
õles16
õlen16
kõhe15
tuissa10
kie19
päälle19
kaula20
õlin15
päälla33
muistin11
õle44
itkemaie12
vaine22
õleva8
audujani10
kanene7

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 796 poems collected in this place, 520 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 276 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); rand = coastal area. 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.

Püssi v. (111)
Tagamaa (20)
Lüganuse (16)
Sirtsi (15)
Purtse (13)
Kestla (8)
Varja (7)
Soonurme (6)
Sope (5)
Kestla-Ahu (4)
Liiva (4)
Moldavi (2)
Moldova (2)
Kopli (1)
Mustmäta (1)
Purtse-Liiva (1)
references naming only the commune
Maidla v. (87)
Tarumaa (27)
Virunurme (18)
Savala (7)
Piilse (4)
Rääsa (4)
Aido (3)
Aruvälja (1)
Rääse (1)
references naming only the commune
Järve v. (72)
Saka (72)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (19).
Erra v. (42)
Koljala (15)
references naming only the commune
Kohtla v. (11)
Also recorded at Jõhvi (255).
Aamõisa v. (6)
Sonda v. (2)
Lüganuse v. (1)
Liimala (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 99 records)
Aidu (54)
Uuemõisa (44)
Soppe (1)
Aidunõmme k (39)
Uniküla (11)
Alutaguse (1)
Kõrgküla (1)
Aa as. (1)
Püssi m. (20)
Maidla m. (10)
Aa m. (8)
Erra m. (2)
Aa rand (25)
Poems with no finer place recorded (276)

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.