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Mihkli

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems239
Verses3,875
Distinct words5,206
Collection years1875–1939
CollectorsKaarli (Karl) Sakson · Tamberg, H. · J. Aru
Coordinates58.5334, 24.0544

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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
lebatsed4
tuhatsed5
utelauta3
padima4
mede13
kingapaelani4
kõima4
luugid4
seelikupaelad3
kapata3
põlvessilma3
kirpa6
perepoege3
vankreid2
sorkimas2
argilista3
marjasmaalta4
marike6
tiksin3
elujõele3

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 239 poems collected in this place, 147 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 92 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); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Koonga v. (99)
Hõbeda (25)
Tamme (23)
Kraavi (5)
Mihkli (5)
Järve (4)
Nätsi (4)
Pikara (4)
Rabavere (4)
Oidrema (2)
Kalli (1)
Karupa (1)
Kurese (1)
Maikse (1)
Ura (1)
Kõima as. (1)
Viruna as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Kõima v. (35)
Veltsa v. (11)
Maanteeääre (3)
Paimre (3)
Piisu (3)
Emmu (2)
Nedremaa (1)
references naming only the commune
Kalli v. (1)
Võitra (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (92)

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.