Martna

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 282 poems collected in this place, 203 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 79 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

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.

• jaanikene vennikene (H II 33, 739 (9)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• laia traavi laskemaie (ERA II 105, 228 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• kübar kui kiriku kell (EÜS X 624/5 (86)) — parallel in Haljala
• kaevuteeda kõndima (EÜS X 620/1 (82)) — parallel in Haljala
• kuu teitid teel teretas (E, StK 19, 38 (27)) — parallel in Hanila
• muld o all ja muld o peal (E, StK 19, 29/30 (18)) — parallel in Hanila
• uba oli uue kuuega (H II 26, 224 (11)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• seda lasta sündimast (E 54716 (12)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kus su kullane minia (E, StK 19, 11/5 (6)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• teine kasside karata (EÜS X 635/6 (92)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani