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Märjamaa

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,320
Verses16,980
Distinct words14,256
Collection years1886–1941
CollectorsMart Siedermann · Emilie Poom · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)
Coordinates58.8636, 24.4215

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
eede35
eedekene16
muole10
usutlema10
teene24
küsitlema17
enni8
mampsel15
möörile4
eedeke6
seenad8
muol6
poordilise5
toober8
armujutud4
ahu16
tipin8
lammerine6
puula7
maanu6

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,320 poems collected in this place, 903 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 417 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.

Märjamaa v. (258)
Also recorded at Rapla (8).
Kõrvetaguse (113)
Also recorded at Rapla (8).
Sipa (26)
Kondi (25)
Sõtke (13)
Pühatu (11)
Also recorded at Rapla (40).
Märjamaa (6)
Vaimõisa (4)
Tolli (3)
Lümandu (2)
Orgita-Paaduotsa (1)
Paeküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Haimre v. (249)
Orgita (114)
Kasti (32)
Moka (3)
references naming only the commune
Valgu v. (108)
Nääri (6)
references naming only the commune
Nurtu v. (46)
Kasti v. (25)
Sipa v. (22)
Raikküla v. (14)
Velise v. (10)
Also recorded at Vigala (190).
Kabala v. (8)
Tolli v. (7)
Kohatu v. (2)
Also recorded at Kullamaa (2).
Märjmaa v. (1)
Vigala v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 3 records)
Konuvere (2)
Valgu (1)
Sõtküla (2)
Alaküla (1)
Itsi (1)
Pühatu rdtj (1)
Paeküla as. (32)
Aimre as. (3)
Haimre as. (2)
Märjamaa as. (2)
Tolli m. (164)
Mõisamaa m. (41)
Vaimõisa m. (12)
Lümandu m. (1)
Orgita m. (1)
Märjamaa al. (2)
Lustimetsa t. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (417)

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.