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Märjamaa

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,331
Verses17,214
Distinct words14,417
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 poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
eede35
eedekene16
muole10
teene24
usutlema10
küsitlema17
mampsel15
enni8
ahu16
möörile4
seenad8
eedeke6
toober8
muol6
nokutada14
tipin8
sõeru16
poordilise5
lammerine6
armujutud4

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,331 poems collected in this place, 912 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 419 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. (276)
Also recorded at Rapla (8).
Kõrvetaguse (119)
Also recorded at Rapla (8).
Sipa (26)
Kondi (25)
Sõtke (13)
Pühatu (12)
Also recorded at Rapla (42).
Märjamaa (6)
Vaimõisa (4)
Tolli (3)
Lümandu (2)
Orgita-Paaduotsa (1)
Paeküla (1)
Alaküla (1)
Paeküla as. (32)
Mõisamaa m. (43)
Märjamaa al. (2)
references naming only the commune
Haimre v. (249)
Orgita (114)
Kasti (32)
Moka (3)
Haimre as. (2)
references naming only the commune
Valgu v. (108)
Nääri (6)
Itsi (1)
references naming only the commune
Nurtu v. (46)
Kasti v. (25)
Sipa v. (22)
Raikküla v. (14)
Velise v. (10)
Also recorded at Vigala (192).
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)
Pühatu rdtj (1)
Aimre as. (3)
Märjamaa as. (2)
Tolli m. (164)
Vaimõisa m. (12)
Lümandu m. (1)
Orgita m. (1)
Lustimetsa t. (3)
Poems with no finer place recorded (419)

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.